EXAM ON REFERENCE SOURCES AND SERVICES

SET 1
A 1. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?
a. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
b. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
d. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
C 2. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.
a. CAS
b. Library instruction
c. Information brokering
d. ILL services
B 3. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?
a. Bibliographic database
b. Full-text database
c. Indexed search
d. Document-base searching
C 4. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?
a. Bibliographic control
b. Research assistance and consulting
c. Interlibrary loan
d. Information brokering
D 5. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and
museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.
a. Paul Stanton Leitz
b. Helen Tubangui
c. Bruce Cruikshank
d. Isagani Medina
D 6. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.
a. The Standard Periodical Directory
b. The Serials Directory
c. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
d. Magazines for Libraries
D 7. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.
a. MESH
b. Healthfinder
c. MEDLARS
d. MEDLINE
B 8. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?
a. Country at a Glance (UN)
b. CIA World Factbook
c. Country Studies
d. History World
A 9. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?
a. Scott Foresman
 b. C.S. Hammond
c. Rand McNally
d. National Geographic
A 10. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials
a. Recency
b. Brevity
c. Conciseness
d. Availability
B 11. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book
a. Table of Contents
b. Introduction
c. Epilogue
d. Preface
C 12. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.
a. ALA
b. WLIN
c. OCLC
d. RUN
C 13. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference
interview?
a. Chatting
b. Instant messaging
c. E-mail
d. Video conferencing
C 14. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography
a. Marcia Bates
b. Helen Haines
c. A. W. Pollard
d. Bohdan A. Wynar
B 15. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?
a. American Book of Days and Firsts
b. Guinness Book of Records
c. Curiosity Handbook
d. Kane's Famous First Facts
B 16. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.
a. Active learning
b. Collaborative learning
c. Demonstration
d. Lecture
B 17. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?
a. Comma
b. Full stop
c. Hyphen
d. Parenthesis
A 18. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University
Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.
a. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
b. Doctoral Abstracts International
 c. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International
d. Dissertation Abstracts International
A 19. Guidebook is a
a. Geographical source
b. Biographical source
c. Fact source
d. Unconventional Source
A 20. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?
a. Almanac for Manilelios
b. Filway's Philippine Almanac
c. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
d. The Asian American Almanac
A 21. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,
what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?
a. Trade catalogs
b. Union catalogs
c. Subject catalogs
d. None of these
D 22. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one
a. Sources in standard list
b. Sources up-to-date
c. Sources useful
d. Sources illustrated
A 23. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of
a. Latitude and longitude
b. None of the above
c. Legends/ symbols
d. Color
B 24. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.
a. PhilJuris
b. Supreme Court e-Library
c. WestLaw
d. Philippine eLib
D 25. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?
a. Interlibrary loan
b. Library Orientation
c. Bibliographic verification
d. Answering ready-reference questions
A 26. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.
a. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
b. Open J-Gate
c. Intute
d. American Memory
C 27. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?
a. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
b. Filipiniana Book Guild Series
c. The Filipino Librarian
d. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
C 28. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except
a. Academic Search
 b. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
c. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
d. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
A 29. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers
in the social sciences?
a. Publication Manual of the APA
b. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers
c. Turabian. A Manual for Writers
d. Chicago Manual of Style
B 30. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services
a. Ready-reference question
b. Research question
c. I & R service
d. Bibliographic verification
C 31. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods
a. Standards
b. Patents
c. Trademarks
d. Specifications
A 32. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?
a. Encyclopedia
b. Guides to the Literature
c. Bibliography
d. Dictionaries
B 33. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use
a. CAS
b. Library instruction
c. ILL services
d. Information brokering
C 34. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.
a. Research Librarian
b. Help-desk librarian
c. Roving librarian
d. Reference librarian
D 35. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.
a. Policy
b. Standards
c. Prescription
d. Protocols
D 36. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.
a. Education
b. Marketing
c. Community
d. Ratings
C 37. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?
a. Marina G. Dayrit
b. Narcisa Tioco
 c. Concordia Sanchez
d. Filomena Mercado-Tann
D 38. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?
a. Johannes Gutenberg
b. Alexander Cruden
c. Calimachus
d. William Caxton
B 39. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress
a. Trade literature
b. Technical Reports
c. Dissertations
d. Thesis
A 40. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.
a. Learning commons
b. Cloud -based applications
c. Mobile computing
d. Analytics
D 41. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called
a. Concordance
b. Alphabetical
c. Fact
d. Classified
C 42. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.
a. Bibliography
b. Abstract
c. Library catalog
d. Index
D 43. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services
a. Ready-reference question
b. Bibliographic verification
c. I & R service
d. Research question
C 44. Which does not belong to the group
a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. Operal
d. Bing
B 45. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?
a. Access Point
b. Given
c. Subject
d. Wanted
A 46. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.
a. Symbols of the State
b. Almanac for Manilenos
c. Guide to Protocol
 d. Pictorial History of the Philippines
A 47. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record
a. Greeks
b. French
c. Romans
d. Americans
D 48. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?
a. Encyclopedia of World Art
b. Who's Who
c. Artists' Biography
d. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
D 49. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.
a. BioMed Central
b. DOAJ
c. High Wire
d. Project Gutenberg
A 50. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like
a. WESTLAW
b. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
c. LA WINDEX
d. Legal Trac
D 51. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et
de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)
a. Pierre Desschamps
b. Johann Georg T. Graesse
c. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
d. Jacques Charles Brunnet
A 52. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?
a. To provide holdings information
b. To locate material
c. To select materials
d. To identify and verify materials
D 53. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?
a. William Katz
b. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan
c. Gerald Jahoda
d. Samuel Rothstein
D 54. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as
a. Social service center
b. Interlibrary loan service
c. Networking
d. Community information center
A 55. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in
print of recorded sound.
a. OPUS
b. Educational Film and Video Locator
c. On Cassette
d. Words on Tape
B 56. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate
reference transactions?
 a. Video taping
b. Proxy users
c. Reference statistics
d. User surveys
D 57. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.
Select one:
a. Index of Book Reviews
b. Digest of Review
c. Book Review Index
d. Book Review Digest
Feedback
Your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is: Book Review Digest
A 58. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the
a. All of the above
b. Methodology used in the work
c. Organization
d. Abstracts and annotations
D 59. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is
a. Source of contributed articles
b. Subject matter of the articles
c. Length of contributed articles
d. Qualifications of contributors
C 60. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?
a. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
b. Filipinos in History
c. Filipino Writers in English
d. Philippine's Who's Who
D 61. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.
a. Povedano manuscript
b. Shi-lu
c. La Ilustracion Filipina
d. Boxer Codex
B 62. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material
a. Technical inquiry service
b. Bibliotherapy
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Term-paper counselling
A 63. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?
a. International Who's Who
b. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
c. Current Biography
d. New York Time Biographical Services
C 64. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?
a. Yearbook
 b. Directory
c. Almanac
d. Encyclopedia
C 65. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?
a. American Circulating Library
b. Library of Congress
c. Boston Public Library
d. New York Public Library
B 66. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?
a. Public Library deposit
b. Legal Deposit
c. National book deposit
d. Free deposit
B 67. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.
a. Social media learning
b. Ubiquitous learning
c. Online learning
d. Consolidated learning
D 68. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the
a. Format
b. Purpose
c. Special features
d. Scope
A 69. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?
a. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
b. Stately Knowledge
c. INFOMINE
d. Youtube
D 70. This is a law index with a major general indexing component
a. Contents First
b. Find Articles
c. CIS Congressional Information Service
d. LEXIS-NEXIS
C 71. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?
a. Ibon Facts & Figures
b. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts
c. Philippine Government Directory
d. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
C 72. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and
retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.
a. Who's Who in the World
b. Biography Index
c. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
d. International Who's Who
D 73. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.
a. World Press Review
b. ProPublica
 c. NewsNow
d. Newseum
C 74. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?
a. Bibliography
b. ILL
c. Instruction in the use of the library
d. Indexes and files compilation
D 75. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend
a. Digital History
b. INFOMINE
c. History World
d. Ancient History Sourcebook
B 76. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in
chronological order with an alphabetical author index?
a. Gustav Mahler
b. Johann Tritheim
c. Konrad Gesner
d. Andrew Maunsell
C 77. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker
contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format
a. The Serial Directory
b. Magazines for Libraries
c. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory
d. The Standard Periodical Directory
B 78. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.
a. Wordpress
b. Twitter
c. Blogger
d. Tumblr
A 79. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?
a. Consecutively, according to accession number
b. Chronological, according to date of publication
c. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
d. Alphabetical, according to author's name
A 80. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant
a. Precision
b. Efficiency
c. Exactness
d. Recall
B 81. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.
a. SDM
b. SDI
c. CAS
d. CAB
C 82. Which of the following is a form bibliography?
a. National Union Catalog
b. Guide to Reference Materials
 c. Guide to Microforms in Print
d. Philippine National Bibliography
A 83. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it
a. Library and Information Science
b. Cataloging and classification
c. Bibliographic control
d. Indexing and Abstracting
C 84. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.
a. Philippine Health Care Factbook
b. Philippine Science Encyclopedia
c. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
d. CEAP Directory
D 85. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.
a. Pacifico M Austria
b. I. V. Mallari
c. Isidoro Saniel
d. Gabriel Bernardo
B 86. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?
a. Match
b. Hit
c. Miss
d. Exact
C 87. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?
a. Query negotiation
b. Search process
c. Reference process
d. Reference interview
D 88. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their
occurrence in a particular text is
a. Alphabetical
b. Facts
c. Classified
d. Concordance
B 89. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames
a. Sir Thomas Bodley
b. Andrew Maunsell
c. Samuel Pepys
d. Anthony Panizzi
C 90. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Herbert Putnam
c. Samuel S. Green
d. Melvil Dewey
A 91. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?
a. Scirus
b. Medline
 c. Directory of Open Access Journals
d. JURN
C 92. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.
a. Learning Analytics
b. Powerpoint
c. Ruby
d. Screencasting
B 93. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.
a. EasyBib
b. Wunderlist
c. Mindnode
d. Wolfram Alpha
B 94. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?
a. Annual
b. Almanac
c. Yearbook
d. Compendium
A 95. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks
a. Z39.50
b. ISO LL
c. Circulation Interchange
d. MARC
C 96. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?
a. Intute
b. Academic Search Complete
c. Scopus
d. LexisNexis
C 97. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?
a. Guidebooks
b. Guides to the literature
c. Handbooks and Almanacs
d. Yearbooks and Almanacs
C 98. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization
a. Almanacs and yearbooks
b. Maps and Atlases
c. Handbooks and Manuals
d. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
D 99. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.
a. Shelf-list
b. Abstract
c. Catalog
d. Index
D 100. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a
team outside of the physical space of a library.
a. Reference Librarian
b. Research librarian
c. Blended librarian
 d. Embedded Librarian
SET 2
C 101. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Microforms in Print

b. Philippine National Bibliography
c. Guide to Reference Materials
d. National Union Catalog

C 102. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. Wolfram Alpha
b. EasyBib
c. Wunderlist
d. Mindnode

C 103. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Research Librarian
b. Help-desk librarian
c. Roving librarian
d. Reference librarian

C 104. Guidebook is a

a. Biographical source
b. Fact source
c. Geographical source
d. Unconventional Source

B 105. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. American Circulating Library

b. Boston Public Library
c. New York Public Library
d. Library of Congress

C 106. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. CEAP Directory
b. Philippine Health Care Factbook
c. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
d. Philippine Science Encyclopedia

D 107. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Guides to the literature

b. Guidebooks
c. Yearbooks and Almanacs
 d. Handbooks and Almanacs

D 108. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Guides to the Literature

b. Bibliography
c. Dictionaries
d. Encyclopedia

A 109. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. Greeks
b. Americans
c. Romans
d. French

D 110. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. On Cassette
b. Words on Tape
c. Educational Film and Video Locator
d. OPUS

B 111. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Alphabetical, according to author's name

b. Consecutively, according to accession number
c. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
d. Chronological, according to date of publication

B 112. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

b. Handbooks and Manuals
c. Almanacs and yearbooks
d. Maps and Atlases

C 113. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Recall
b. Exactness
c. Precision
d. Efficiency

D 114. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. NewsNow
b. World Press Review
 c. ProPublica
d. Newseum

D 115. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Pierre Desschamps
b. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
c. Johann Georg T. Graesse
d. Jacques Charles Brunnet

C 116. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Narcisa Tioco
b. Marina G. Dayrit
c. Concordia Sanchez
d. Filomena Mercado-Tann

A 117. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. E-mail
b. Instant messaging
c. Chatting
d. Video conferencing

A 118. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Embedded Librarian
b. Reference Librarian
c. Blended librarian
d. Research librarian

B 119. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. Marcia Bates
b. A. W. Pollard
c. Helen Haines
d. Bohdan A. Wynar

D 120. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Johannes Gutenberg
b. Alexander Cruden
c. Calimachus
d. William Caxton

C 121. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. MARC
b. Circulation Interchange
c. Z39.50
 d. ISO LL

B 122. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. DOAJ
b. Project Gutenberg
c. BioMed Central
d. High Wire

D 123. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. Abstracts and annotations

b. Organization
c. Methodology used in the work
d. All of the above

D 124. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. INFOMINE
b. Stately Knowledge
c. Youtube
d. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive

B 125. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Kane's Famous First Facts

b. Guinness Book of Records
c. Curiosity Handbook
d. American Book of Days and Firsts

D 126. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Miss
b. Match
c. Exact
d. Hit

C 127. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Term-paper counselling
b. Research assistance and consulting
c. Bibliotherapy
d. Technical inquiry service

A 128. Which does not belong to the group

a. Operal
b. Google
c. Bing
 d. Yahoo

C 129. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. ALA
b. RUN
c. OCLC
d. WLIN

A 130. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Answering ready-reference questions

b. Library Orientation
c. Bibliographic verification
d. Interlibrary loan

A 131. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Collaborative learning
b. Demonstration
c. Active learning
d. Lecture

D 132. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Bibliographic verification
b. Ready-reference question
c. I & R service
d. Research question

D 133. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Education
b. Marketing
c. Community
d. Ratings

C 134. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Cloud -based applications

b. Analytics
c. Learning commons
d. Mobile computing

A 135. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Symbols of the State

 b. Almanac for Manilenos
c. Pictorial History of the Philippines
d. Guide to Protocol

D 136. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. Indexes and files compilation

b. ILL
c. Bibliography
d. Instruction in the use of the library

D 137. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Interlibrary loan service

b. Networking
c. Social service center
d. Community information center

C 138. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Paul Stanton Leitz

b. Bruce Cruikshank
c. Isagani Medina
d. Helen Tubangui

D 139. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. Information brokering
b. CAS
c. ILL services
d. Library instruction

D 140. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)

b. Academic Search
c. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
d. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

A 141. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Book Review Digest

b. Book Review Index
c. Digest of Review
d. Index of Book Reviews

B 142. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?
 a. Subject
b. Given
c. Access Point
d. Wanted

D 143. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Bibliography
b. Index
c. Abstract
d. Library catalog

D 144. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Search process
b. Query negotiation
c. Reference interview
d. Reference process

A 145. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. International Who's Who

b. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
c. New York Time Biographical Services
d. Current Biography

A 146. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Full-text database
b. Indexed search
c. Bibliographic database
d. Document-base searching

A 147. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. The Filipino Librarian

b. Filipiniana Book Guild Series
c. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
d. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections

D 148. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Consolidated learning
b. Online learning
c. Social media learning
d. Ubiquitous learning

B 149. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. National Geographic
b. Scott Foresman
 c. Rand McNally
d. C.S. Hammond

A 150. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Index
b. Catalog
c. Abstract
d. Shelf-list

C 151. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To identify and verify materials

b. To select materials
c. To provide holdings information
d. To locate material

D 152. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country at a Glance (UN)

b. Country Studies
c. History World
d. CIA World Factbook

B 153. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International

b. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
c. Doctoral Abstracts International
d. Dissertation Abstracts International

B 154. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. Directory of Open Access Journals

b. Scirus
c. JURN
d. Medline

A 155. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

Select one:
a. Almanac
b. Encyclopedia
c. Yearbook
d. Directory

D 156. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

 a. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
b. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

B 157. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. Legal Trac
b. WESTLAW
c. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
d. LA WINDEX

D 158. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. The Serial Directory

b. The Standard Periodical Directory
c. Magazines for Libraries
d. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory

A 159. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Interlibrary loan
b. Information brokering
c. Bibliographic control
d. Research assistance and consulting

B 160. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

Select one:
a. Learning Analytics
b. Ruby
c. Powerpoint
d. Screencasting

D 161. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources up-to-date
b. Sources in standard list
c. Sources useful
d. Sources illustrated

A 162. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Samuel S. Green
b. Herbert Putnam
c. Melvil Dewey
 d. Benjamin Franklin

B 163. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Open J-Gate
b. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
c. American Memory
d. Intute

B 164. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in

chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Konrad Gesner
b. Johann Tritheim
c. Gustav Mahler
d. Andrew Maunsell

B 165. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. I & R service
b. Research question
c. Ready-reference question
d. Bibliographic verification

B 166. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Specifications
b. Trademarks
c. Patents
d. Standards

A 167. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Publication Manual of the APA

b. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers
c. Chicago Manual of Style
d. Turabian. A Manual for Writers

D 168. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. Filway's Philippine Almanac

b. The Asian American Almanac
c. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
d. Almanac for Manilelios

B 169. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Ibon Facts & Figures

b. Philippine Government Directory
c. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
d. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts
B 170. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Availability
b. Recency
c. Conciseness
d. Brevity

D 171. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. The Standard Periodical Directory

b. The Serials Directory
c. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
d. Magazines for Libraries

B 172. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Legends/ symbols
b. Latitude and longitude
c. Color
d. None of the above

C 173. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. INFOMINE
b. History World
c. Ancient History Sourcebook
d. Digital History

A 174. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Concordance
b. Classified
c. Facts
d. Alphabetical

A 175. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Qualifications of contributors
b. Length of contributed articles
c. Subject matter of the articles
d. Source of contributed articles

A 176. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. SDI
b. CAB
 c. CAS
d. SDM

D 177. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Comma
b. Hyphen
c. Parenthesis
d. Full stop

A 178. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Almanac
b. Yearbook
c. Compendium
d. Annual

C 179. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Format
b. Special features
c. Scope
d. Purpose

B 180. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Povedano manuscript
b. Boxer Codex
c. La Ilustracion Filipina
d. Shi-lu

C 181. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Subject catalogs
b. None of these
c. Trade catalogs
d. Union catalogs

A 182. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Andrew Maunsell
b. Sir Thomas Bodley
c. Samuel Pepys
d. Anthony Panizzi

D 183. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.
 a. Healthfinder
b. MESH
c. MEDLARS
d. MEDLINE

A 184. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Samuel Rothstein
b. William Katz
c. Gerald Jahoda
d. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

D 185. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. Library instruction
b. CAS
c. ILL services
d. Information brokering

A 186. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Protocols
b. Standards
c. Policy
d. Prescription

B 187. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. Intute
b. Scopus
c. Academic Search Complete
d. LexisNexis

C 188. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Public Library deposit

b. Free deposit
c. Legal Deposit
d. National book deposit

C 189. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. Philippine eLib
b. WestLaw
c. Supreme Court e-Library
d. PhilJuris
C 190. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate
reference transactions?

a. Reference statistics
b. User surveys
c. Proxy users
d. Video taping

B 191. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Epilogue
b. Introduction
c. Preface
d. Table of Contents

C 192. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Dissertations
b. Thesis
c. Technical Reports
d. Trade literature

A 193. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Classified
b. Fact
c. Concordance
d. Alphabetical

D 194. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Filipinos in History
b. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
c. Philippine's Who's Who
d. Filipino Writers in English

D 195. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. Isidoro Saniel
b. I. V. Mallari
c. Pacifico M Austria
d. Gabriel Bernardo

A 196. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Twitter
b. Blogger
c. Wordpress
 d. Tumblr

C 197. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Artists' Biography
b. Who's Who
c. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
d. Encyclopedia of World Art

C 198. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. International Who's Who

b. Who's Who in the World
c. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
d. Biography Index

C 199. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Bibliographic control
b. Cataloging and classification
c. Library and Information Science
d. Indexing and Abstracting

D 200. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. Find Articles
b. Contents First
c. CIS Congressional Information Service
d. LEXIS-NEXIS

SET 3
B 201. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a

bibliography.
b. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

A 202. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. Boston Public Library

b. Library of Congress
c. New York Public Library
d. American Circulating Library

C 203. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?
 a. Bibliographic database
b. Document-base searching
c. Full-text database
d. Indexed search

A 204. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. Gabriel Bernardo
b. Pacifico M Austria
c. I. V. Mallari
d. Isidoro Saniel

D 205. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. Filipiniana Book Guild Series

b. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
c. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
d. The Filipino Librarian

A 206. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Collaborative learning
b. Demonstration
c. Lecture
d. Active learning

D 207. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Guidebooks
b. Guides to the literature
c. Yearbooks and Almanacs
d. Handbooks and Almanacs

A 208. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. Proxy users
b. User surveys
c. Video taping
d. Reference statistics

B 209. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. Legal Trac
b. WESTLAW
c. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
d. LA WINDEX

A 210. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.
 a. Library catalog
b. Index
c. Bibliography
d. Abstract

A 211. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Guinness Book of Records

b. Curiosity Handbook
c. American Book of Days and Firsts
d. Kane's Famous First Facts

A 212. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. Library instruction
b. Information brokering
c. CAS
d. ILL services

B 213. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Comma
b. Full stop
c. Hyphen
d. Parenthesis

D 214. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Pictorial History of the Philippines

b. Almanac for Manilenos
c. Guide to Protocol
d. Symbols of the State

A 215. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Qualifications of contributors
b. Length of contributed articles
c. Subject matter of the articles
d. Source of contributed articles

B 216. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. Academic Search Complete

b. Scopus
c. LexisNexis
d. Intute
D 217. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. The Asian American Almanac

b. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
c. Filway's Philippine Almanac
d. Almanac for Manilelios

A 218. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Answering ready-reference questions

b. Library Orientation
c. Interlibrary loan
d. Bibliographic verification

B 219. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Preface
b. Introduction
c. Table of Contents
d. Epilogue

A 220. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. OCLC
b. RUN
c. WLIN
d. ALA

C 221. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International

b. Dissertation Abstracts International
c. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
d. Doctoral Abstracts International

D 222. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Narcisa Tioco
b. Marina G. Dayrit
c. Filomena Mercado-Tann
d. Concordia Sanchez

B 223. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Alexander Cruden
b. William Caxton
c. Johannes Gutenberg
d. Calimachus
A 224. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. International Who's Who

b. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
c. New York Time Biographical Services
d. Current Biography

C 225. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Purpose
b. Special features
c. Scope
d. Format

A 226. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Concordance
b. Facts
c. Alphabetical
d. Classified

B 227. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. The Serials Directory

b. Magazines for Libraries
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory

D 228. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. ILL services
b. CAS
c. Library instruction
d. Information brokering

C 229. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Alphabetical
b. Fact
c. Classified
d. Concordance

D 230. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. ProPublica
b. World Press Review
c. NewsNow
d. Newseum
C 231. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Philippine Statistical Yearbook

b. Ibon Facts & Figures
c. Philippine Government Directory
d. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts

D 232. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To identify and verify materials

b. To locate material
c. To select materials
d. To provide holdings information

B 233. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Conciseness
b. Recency
c. Brevity
d. Availability

C 234. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Specifications
b. Patents
c. Trademarks
d. Standards

B 235. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Anthony Panizzi
b. Andrew Maunsell
c. Samuel Pepys
d. Sir Thomas Bodley

B 236. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. SDM
b. SDI
c. CAB
d. CAS

C 237. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Interlibrary loan service

b. Social service center
c. Community information center
d. Networking
B 238. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Term-paper counselling
b. Bibliotherapy
c. Technical inquiry service
d. Research assistance and consulting

B 239. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. WestLaw
b. Supreme Court e-Library
c. PhilJuris
d. Philippine eLib

D 240. Guidebook is a

a. Fact source
b. Unconventional Source
c. Biographical source
d. Geographical source

D 241. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. Wolfram Alpha
b. EasyBib
c. Mindnode
d. Wunderlist

C 242. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. William Katz
b. Gerald Jahoda
c. Samuel Rothstein
d. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

A 243. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Roving librarian
b. Help-desk librarian
c. Research Librarian
d. Reference librarian

C 244. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. The Serial Directory

b. The Standard Periodical Directory
c. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory
 d. Magazines for Libraries

D 245. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Wanted
b. Subject
c. Access Point
d. Given

A 246. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Ubiquitous learning
b. Consolidated learning
c. Online learning
d. Social media learning

B 247. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. On Cassette
b. OPUS
c. Words on Tape
d. Educational Film and Video Locator

C 248. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. Americans
b. Romans
c. Greeks
d. French

C 249. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Dissertations
b. Thesis
c. Technical Reports
d. Trade literature

D 250. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Recall
b. Exactness
c. Efficiency
d. Precision

A 251. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Biography and Genealogy Master Index

b. International Who's Who
 c. Biography Index
d. Who's Who in the World

B 252. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Digest of Review
b. Book Review Digest
c. Index of Book Reviews
d. Book Review Index

A 253. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Twitter
b. Tumblr
c. Blogger
d. Wordpress

C 254. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. JURN
b. Medline
c. Scirus
d. Directory of Open Access Journals

B 255. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Philippine National Bibliography

b. Guide to Microforms in Print
c. Guide to Reference Materials
d. National Union Catalog

A 256. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Research question
b. I & R service
c. Bibliographic verification
d. Ready-reference question

B 257. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Color
b. Latitude and longitude
c. Legends/ symbols
d. None of the above

B 258. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.
 a. Philippine Health Care Factbook
b. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
c. CEAP Directory
d. Philippine Science Encyclopedia

B 259. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. History World
b. CIA World Factbook
c. Country Studies
d. Country at a Glance (UN)

B 260. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Ready-reference question
b. Research question
c. I & R service
d. Bibliographic verification

D 261. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Who's Who
b. Artists' Biography
c. Encyclopedia of World Art
d. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

A 262. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Samuel S. Green
b. Melvil Dewey
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Herbert Putnam

C 263. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers

b. Chicago Manual of Style
c. Publication Manual of the APA
d. Turabian. A Manual for Writers

C 264. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Filipinos in History
b. Philippine's Who's Who
c. Filipino Writers in English
d. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
C 265. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Povedano manuscript
b. La Ilustracion Filipina
c. Boxer Codex
d. Shi-lu

A 266. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Library and Information Science

b. Cataloging and classification
c. Indexing and Abstracting
d. Bibliographic control

D 267. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

b. Academic Search
c. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
d. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

A 268. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

b. Intute
c. American Memory
d. Open J-Gate

A 269. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Handbooks and Manuals

b. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
c. Almanacs and yearbooks
d. Maps and Atlases

B 270. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. INFOMINE
b. Ancient History Sourcebook
c. Digital History
d. History World

B 271. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. CIS Congressional Information Service

b. LEXIS-NEXIS
c. Contents First
d. Find Articles
A 272. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Protocols
b. Prescription
c. Standards
d. Policy

B 273. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. Bibliography
b. Instruction in the use of the library
c. Indexes and files compilation
d. ILL

A 274. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Almanac
b. Yearbook
c. Annual
d. Compendium

C 275. Which does not belong to the group

a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. Operal
d. Bing

A 276. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive

b. INFOMINE
c. Youtube
d. Stately Knowledge

D 277. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. DOAJ
b. High Wire
c. BioMed Central
d. Project Gutenberg

C 278. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. Organization
b. Abstracts and annotations
c. All of the above
d. Methodology used in the work
B 279. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in
chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Gustav Mahler
b. Johann Tritheim
c. Andrew Maunsell
d. Konrad Gesner

A 280. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Index
b. Shelf-list
c. Abstract
d. Catalog

B 281. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Subject catalogs
b. Trade catalogs
c. Union catalogs
d. None of these

A 282. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. A. W. Pollard
b. Helen Haines
c. Bohdan A. Wynar
d. Marcia Bates

C 283. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Alphabetical, according to author's name

b. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
c. Consecutively, according to accession number
d. Chronological, according to date of publication

A 284. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Embedded Librarian
b. Reference Librarian
c. Blended librarian
d. Research librarian

D 285. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Mobile computing
b. Cloud -based applications
c. Analytics
d. Learning commons
A 286. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et
de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Jacques Charles Brunnet

b. Johann Georg T. Graesse
c. Pierre Desschamps
d. Friedrich Adolf Ebert

A 287. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. MEDLINE
b. Healthfinder
c. MEDLARS
d. MESH

C 288. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Exact
b. Miss
c. Hit
d. Match

D 289. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. Rand McNally
b. C.S. Hammond
c. National Geographic
d. Scott Foresman

A 290. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Ruby
b. Learning Analytics
c. Screencasting
d. Powerpoint

D 291. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Marketing
b. Community
c. Education
d. Ratings

B 292. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Search process
b. Reference process
c. Reference interview
d. Query negotiation
A 293. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Interlibrary loan
b. Information brokering
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Bibliographic control

B 294. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources useful
b. Sources illustrated
c. Sources up-to-date
d. Sources in standard list

B 295. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Bibliography
b. Encyclopedia
c. Dictionaries
d. Guides to the Literature

D 296. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Bruce Cruikshank
b. Paul Stanton Leitz
c. Helen Tubangui
d. Isagani Medina

C 297. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Encyclopedia
b. Yearbook
c. Almanac
d. Directory

C 298. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. Instant messaging
b. Chatting
c. E-mail
d. Video conferencing

A 299. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. Z39.50
b. ISO LL
c. MARC
 d. Circulation Interchange

D 300. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Free deposit
b. National book deposit
c. Public Library deposit
d. Legal Deposit

SET 4
D 301. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Alphabetical, according to author's name

b. Chronological, according to date of publication
c. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
d. Consecutively, according to accession number

A 302. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Qualifications of contributors
b. Source of contributed articles
c. Length of contributed articles
d. Subject matter of the articles

C 303. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Stately Knowledge
b. INFOMINE
c. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
d. Youtube

D 304. Guidebook is a

a. Fact source
b. Unconventional Source
c. Biographical source
d. Geographical source

B 305. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. The Serial Directory

b. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Magazines for Libraries
C 306. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a
team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Reference Librarian
b. Research librarian
c. Embedded Librarian
d. Blended librarian

B 307. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Curiosity Handbook
b. Guinness Book of Records
c. American Book of Days and Firsts
d. Kane's Famous First Facts

D 308. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Bruce Cruikshank
b. Paul Stanton Leitz
c. Helen Tubangui
d. Isagani Medina

D 309. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Query negotiation
b. Reference interview
c. Search process
d. Reference process

B 310. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Who's Who
b. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
c. Encyclopedia of World Art
d. Artists' Biography

D 311. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Dissertation Abstracts International

b. Doctoral Abstracts International
c. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International
d. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts

B 312. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. Instant messaging
b. E-mail
c. Video conferencing
 d. Chatting

B 313. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. SDM
b. SDI
c. CAS
d. CAB

B 314. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. High Wire
b. Project Gutenberg
c. DOAJ
d. BioMed Central

A 315. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Ruby
b. Powerpoint
c. Learning Analytics
d. Screencasting

C 316. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Subject
b. Wanted
c. Given
d. Access Point

B 317. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Pierre Desschamps
b. Jacques Charles Brunnet
c. Johann Georg T. Graesse
d. Friedrich Adolf Ebert

D 318. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

b. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
c. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

B 319. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Term-paper counselling
b. Bibliotherapy
 c. Technical inquiry service
d. Research assistance and consulting

D 320. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Community
b. Marketing
c. Education
d. Ratings

C 321. Which does not belong to the group

a. Google
b. Bing
c. Operal
d. Yahoo

B 322. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Prescription
b. Protocols
c. Standards
d. Policy

D 323. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Library Orientation
b. Bibliographic verification
c. Interlibrary loan
d. Answering ready-reference questions

D 324. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. Intute
b. LexisNexis
c. Academic Search Complete
d. Scopus

B 325. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts

b. Philippine Government Directory
c. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
d. Ibon Facts & Figures

B 326. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. I & R service
b. Research question
c. Ready-reference question
 d. Bibliographic verification

D 327. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Almanac for Manilenos

b. Guide to Protocol
c. Pictorial History of the Philippines
d. Symbols of the State

A 328. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Library and Information Science

b. Indexing and Abstracting
c. Cataloging and classification
d. Bibliographic control

B 329. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources up-to-date
b. Sources illustrated
c. Sources in standard list
d. Sources useful

C 330. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. Philippine eLib
b. PhilJuris
c. Supreme Court e-Library
d. WestLaw

A 331. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. The Filipino Librarian

b. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
c. Filipiniana Book Guild Series
d. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait

C 332. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. C.S. Hammond
b. National Geographic
c. Scott Foresman
d. Rand McNally

C 333. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Patents
b. Standards
c. Trademarks
d. Specifications
B 334. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Exact
b. Hit
c. Match
d. Miss

C 335. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. Find Articles
b. Contents First
c. LEXIS-NEXIS
d. CIS Congressional Information Service

C 336. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. Digital History
b. History World
c. Ancient History Sourcebook
d. INFOMINE

D 337. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Bibliography
b. Guides to the Literature
c. Dictionaries
d. Encyclopedia

A 338. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Recency
b. Brevity
c. Conciseness
d. Availability

D 339. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. Indexes and files compilation

b. Bibliography
c. ILL
d. Instruction in the use of the library

B 340. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Bibliographic control
b. Interlibrary loan
c. Information brokering
d. Research assistance and consulting
B 341. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Index of Book Reviews

b. Book Review Digest
c. Digest of Review
d. Book Review Index

B 342. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Turabian. A Manual for Writers

b. Publication Manual of the APA
c. Chicago Manual of Style
d. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers

D 343. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Online learning
b. Social media learning
c. Consolidated learning
d. Ubiquitous learning

D 344. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Table of Contents
b. Preface
c. Epilogue
d. Introduction

C 345. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Networking
b. Social service center
c. Community information center
d. Interlibrary loan service

C 346. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Subject catalogs
b. None of these
c. Trade catalogs
d. Union catalogs

D 347. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Academic Search
b. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
c. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
 d. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

C 348. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Directory
b. Yearbook
c. Almanac
d. Encyclopedia

C 349. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Legends/ symbols
b. Color
c. Latitude and longitude
d. None of the above

A 350. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Microforms in Print

b. Philippine National Bibliography
c. Guide to Reference Materials
d. National Union Catalog

B 351. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country Studies
b. CIA World Factbook
c. History World
d. Country at a Glance (UN)

A 352. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Samuel Rothstein
b. Gerald Jahoda
c. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan
d. William Katz

D 353. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Anthony Panizzi
b. Samuel Pepys
c. Sir Thomas Bodley
d. Andrew Maunsell

B 354. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. I & R service
b. Research question
c. Ready-reference question
 d. Bibliographic verification

C 355. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Intute
b. Open J-Gate
c. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
d. American Memory

C 356. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. Library instruction
b. ILL services
c. Information brokering
d. CAS

C 357. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Active learning
b. Lecture
c. Collaborative learning
d. Demonstration

A 358. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Full-text database
b. Bibliographic database
c. Document-base searching
d. Indexed search

A 359. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. MEDLINE
b. MEDLARS
c. Healthfinder
d. MESH

B 360. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Philippine's Who's Who

b. Filipino Writers in English
c. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
d. Filipinos in History

D 361. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the
 a. Special features
b. Purpose
c. Format
d. Scope

B 362. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. ProPublica
b. Newseum
c. World Press Review
d. NewsNow

D 363. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Maps and Atlases

b. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
c. Almanacs and yearbooks
d. Handbooks and Manuals

D 364. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Yearbooks and Almanacs

b. Guides to the literature
c. Guidebooks
d. Handbooks and Almanacs

A 365. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Concordance
b. Facts
c. Classified
d. Alphabetical

A 366. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. Wunderlist
b. Mindnode
c. Wolfram Alpha
d. EasyBib

D 367. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Trade literature
b. Thesis
c. Dissertations
d. Technical Reports
A 368. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Twitter
b. Wordpress
c. Blogger
d. Tumblr

A 369. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Index
b. Catalog
c. Shelf-list
d. Abstract

A 370. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Library catalog
b. Abstract
c. Index
d. Bibliography

B 371. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. National book deposit

b. Legal Deposit
c. Free deposit
d. Public Library deposit

B 372. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. The Asian American Almanac

b. Almanac for Manilelios
c. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
d. Filway's Philippine Almanac

B 373. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. Pacifico M Austria
b. Gabriel Bernardo
c. I. V. Mallari
d. Isidoro Saniel

A 374. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. A. W. Pollard
b. Marcia Bates
c. Bohdan A. Wynar
d. Helen Haines
B 375. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. ILL services
b. Library instruction
c. Information brokering
d. CAS

B 376. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. Current Biography
b. International Who's Who
c. New York Time Biographical Services
d. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography

B 377. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. LA WINDEX
b. WESTLAW
c. Legal Trac
d. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books

A 378. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Samuel S. Green
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Herbert Putnam
d. Melvil Dewey

C 379. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. American Circulating Library

b. New York Public Library
c. Boston Public Library
d. Library of Congress

D 380. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Efficiency
b. Recall
c. Exactness
d. Precision

D 381. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. Abstracts and annotations

b. Methodology used in the work
c. Organization
d. All of the above
B 382. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. Philippine Health Care Factbook

b. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
c. CEAP Directory
d. Philippine Science Encyclopedia

A 383. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. OCLC
b. RUN
c. WLIN
d. ALA

C 384. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Parenthesis
b. Comma
c. Full stop
d. Hyphen

B 385. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

Select one:
a. Americans
b. Greeks
c. Romans
d. French
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Your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is: Greeks
A 386. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in
chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Johann Tritheim
b. Gustav Mahler
c. Konrad Gesner
d. Andrew Maunsell

D 387. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To identify and verify materials

b. To select materials
c. To locate material
d. To provide holdings information

D 388. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. User surveys
 b. Video taping
c. Reference statistics
d. Proxy users

D 389. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Calimachus
b. Johannes Gutenberg
c. Alexander Cruden
d. William Caxton

C 390. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Shi-lu
b. La Ilustracion Filipina
c. Boxer Codex
d. Povedano manuscript

C 391. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. JURN
b. Directory of Open Access Journals
c. Scirus
d. Medline

C 392. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Help-desk librarian
b. Reference librarian
c. Roving librarian
d. Research Librarian

A 393. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Classified
b. Concordance
c. Alphabetical
d. Fact

A 394. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. OPUS
b. Words on Tape
c. Educational Film and Video Locator
d. On Cassette
C 395. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. ISO LL
b. MARC
c. Z39.50
d. Circulation Interchange

B 396. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Compendium
b. Almanac
c. Annual
d. Yearbook

D 397. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Cloud -based applications

b. Mobile computing
c. Analytics
d. Learning commons

D 398. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Biography Index
b. Who's Who in the World
c. International Who's Who
d. Biography and Genealogy Master Index

B 399. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. The Standard Periodical Directory

b. Magazines for Libraries
c. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
d. The Serials Directory

B 400. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Narcisa Tioco
b. Concordia Sanchez
c. Marina G. Dayrit
d. Filomena Mercado-Tann

SET 5
B 401. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Legends/ symbols
 b. Latitude and longitude
c. Color
d. None of the above

B 402. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. Find Articles
b. LEXIS-NEXIS
c. CIS Congressional Information Service
d. Contents First

B 403. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Standards
b. Protocols
c. Prescription
d. Policy

D 404. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Public Library deposit

b. National book deposit
c. Free deposit
d. Legal Deposit

D 405. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Ready-reference question
b. Bibliographic verification
c. I & R service
d. Research question

A 406. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Research question
b. Bibliographic verification
c. I & R service
d. Ready-reference question

D 407. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Dissertations
b. Thesis
c. Trade literature
d. Technical Reports

D 408. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames
 a. Samuel Pepys
b. Sir Thomas Bodley
c. Anthony Panizzi
d. Andrew Maunsell

C 409. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Reference interview
b. Search process
c. Reference process
d. Query negotiation

C 410. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Povedano manuscript
b. Shi-lu
c. Boxer Codex
d. La Ilustracion Filipina

C 411. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Ibon Facts & Figures

b. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
c. Philippine Government Directory
d. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts

C 412. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. LexisNexis
b. Intute
c. Scopus
d. Academic Search Complete

D 413. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Subject matter of the articles

b. Source of contributed articles
c. Length of contributed articles
d. Qualifications of contributors

B 414. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Biography Index
b. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
c. Who's Who in the World
d. International Who's Who
A 415. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Learning commons
b. Mobile computing
c. Cloud -based applications
d. Analytics

A 416. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. MEDLINE
b. MESH
c. Healthfinder
d. MEDLARS

A 417. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Concordance
b. Facts
c. Classified
d. Alphabetical

A 418. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Samuel Rothstein
b. William Katz
c. Gerald Jahoda
d. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

B 419. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Doctoral Abstracts International

b. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
c. Dissertation Abstracts International
d. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International

A 420. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

b. Academic Search
c. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
d. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

B 421. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. NewsNow
b. Newseum
c. ProPublica
 d. World Press Review

A 422. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. SDI
b. CAB
c. CAS
d. SDM

C 423. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Exact
b. Match
c. Hit
d. Miss

D 424. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers

b. Chicago Manual of Style
c. Turabian. A Manual for Writers
d. Publication Manual of the APA

B 425. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Curiosity Handbook
b. Guinness Book of Records
c. Kane's Famous First Facts
d. American Book of Days and Firsts

C 426. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Indexed search
b. Bibliographic database
c. Full-text database
d. Document-base searching

B 427. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Abstract
b. Index
c. Catalog
d. Shelf-list

D 428. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. History World
 b. INFOMINE
c. Digital History
d. Ancient History Sourcebook

B 429. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Guidebooks
b. Handbooks and Almanacs
c. Yearbooks and Almanacs
d. Guides to the literature

B 430. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Epilogue
b. Introduction
c. Preface
d. Table of Contents

B 431. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Standards
b. Trademarks
c. Specifications
d. Patents

B 432. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts

b. Almanac for Manilelios
c. Filway's Philippine Almanac
d. The Asian American Almanac

A 433. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. Scott Foresman
b. National Geographic
c. C.S. Hammond
d. Rand McNally

A 434. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. WESTLAW
b. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
c. Legal Trac
d. LA WINDEX

D 435. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country at a Glance (UN)

b. History World
 c. Country Studies
d. CIA World Factbook

B 436. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

b. Handbooks and Manuals
c. Almanacs and yearbooks
d. Maps and Atlases

D 437. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Alexander Cruden
b. Calimachus
c. Johannes Gutenberg
d. William Caxton

D 438. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Recall
b. Efficiency
c. Exactness
d. Precision

A 439. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Ratings
b. Community
c. Education
d. Marketing

B 440. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. User surveys
b. Proxy users
c. Video taping
d. Reference statistics

D 441. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. Mindnode
b. EasyBib
c. Wolfram Alpha
d. Wunderlist

D 442. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To locate material
b. To identify and verify materials
 c. To select materials
d. To provide holdings information

C 443. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in

chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Andrew Maunsell
b. Gustav Mahler
c. Johann Tritheim
d. Konrad Gesner

A 444. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Interlibrary loan
b. Bibliographic control
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Information brokering

C 445. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Conciseness
b. Availability
c. Recency
d. Brevity

B 446. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Compendium
b. Almanac
c. Annual
d. Yearbook

B 447. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Bibliographic control
b. Library and Information Science
c. Indexing and Abstracting
d. Cataloging and classification

C 448. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. CEAP Directory
b. Philippine Science Encyclopedia
c. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
d. Philippine Health Care Factbook

B 449. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Blogger
 b. Twitter
c. Tumblr
d. Wordpress

A 450. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Classified
b. Fact
c. Concordance
d. Alphabetical

B 451. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Melvil Dewey
b. Samuel S. Green
c. Herbert Putnam
d. Benjamin Franklin

B 452. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. ILL services
b. Library instruction
c. CAS
d. Information brokering

A 453. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Microforms in Print

b. Philippine National Bibliography
c. Guide to Reference Materials
d. National Union Catalog

A 454. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Answering ready-reference questions

b. Bibliographic verification
c. Interlibrary loan
d. Library Orientation

A 455. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Isagani Medina
b. Bruce Cruikshank
c. Paul Stanton Leitz
d. Helen Tubangui

B 456. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.
 a. Abstract
b. Library catalog
c. Bibliography
d. Index

B 457. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. Video conferencing
b. E-mail
c. Instant messaging
d. Chatting

C 458. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Research Librarian
b. Reference librarian
c. Roving librarian
d. Help-desk librarian

B 459. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Youtube
b. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
c. Stately Knowledge
d. INFOMINE

B 460. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. I. V. Mallari
b. Gabriel Bernardo
c. Pacifico M Austria
d. Isidoro Saniel

D 461. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. Marcia Bates
b. Helen Haines
c. Bohdan A. Wynar
d. A. W. Pollard

D 462. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. On Cassette
b. Educational Film and Video Locator
c. Words on Tape
d. OPUS

C 463. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.
 a. Social media learning
b. Online learning
c. Ubiquitous learning
d. Consolidated learning

D 464. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Chronological, according to date of publication

b. Alphabetical, according to author's name
c. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
d. Consecutively, according to accession number

D 465. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Encyclopedia of World Art

b. Artists' Biography
c. Who's Who
d. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

C 466. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait

b. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
c. The Filipino Librarian
d. Filipiniana Book Guild Series

A 467. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. Magazines for Libraries

b. The Serials Directory
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory

B 468. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Networking
b. Community information center
c. Interlibrary loan service
d. Social service center

A 469. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. International Who's Who

b. Current Biography
c. New York Time Biographical Services
d. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography

B 470. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?
 a. American Circulating Library
b. Boston Public Library
c. New York Public Library
d. Library of Congress

A 471. Guidebook is a

a. Geographical source
b. Fact source
c. Biographical source
d. Unconventional Source

B 472. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Philippine's Who's Who

b. Filipino Writers in English
c. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
d. Filipinos in History

A 473. Which does not belong to the group

a. Operal
b. Google
c. Yahoo
d. Bing

C 474. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Special features
b. Format
c. Scope
d. Purpose

A 475. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Ruby
b. Learning Analytics
c. Powerpoint
d. Screencasting

C 476. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. MARC
b. ISO LL
c. Z39.50
d. Circulation Interchange

D 477. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Filomena Mercado-Tann
b. Narcisa Tioco
 c. Marina G. Dayrit
d. Concordia Sanchez

D 478. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. Magazines for Libraries

b. The Serial Directory
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory

D 479. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. High Wire
b. DOAJ
c. BioMed Central
d. Project Gutenberg

B 480. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Directory
b. Almanac
c. Yearbook
d. Encyclopedia

C 481. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. Romans
b. French
c. Greeks
d. Americans

A 482. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Book Review Digest

b. Digest of Review
c. Book Review Index
d. Index of Book Reviews

A 483. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. Supreme Court e-Library

b. Philippine eLib
c. WestLaw
d. PhilJuris

B 484. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. Medline
 b. Scirus
c. JURN
d. Directory of Open Access Journals

C 485. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. Bibliography
b. Indexes and files compilation
c. Instruction in the use of the library
d. ILL

B 486. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. ILL services
b. Information brokering
c. CAS
d. Library instruction

B 487. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Blended librarian
b. Embedded Librarian
c. Reference Librarian
d. Research librarian

B 488. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. American Memory
b. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
c. Open J-Gate
d. Intute

A 489. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Symbols of the State

b. Almanac for Manilenos
c. Guide to Protocol
d. Pictorial History of the Philippines

A 490. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. OCLC
b. ALA
c. WLIN
d. RUN

D 491. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?
 a. None of these
b. Subject catalogs
c. Union catalogs
d. Trade catalogs

C 492. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Bibliography
b. Guides to the Literature
c. Encyclopedia
d. Dictionaries

A 493. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Collaborative learning
b. Lecture
c. Demonstration
d. Active learning

D 494. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

b. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
d. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

B 495. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Subject
b. Given
c. Access Point
d. Wanted

A 496. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. All of the above

b. Methodology used in the work
c. Abstracts and annotations
d. Organization

D 497. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Pierre Desschamps
b. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
c. Johann Georg T. Graesse
d. Jacques Charles Brunnet
C 498. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Comma
b. Parenthesis
c. Full stop
d. Hyphen

D 499. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Research assistance and consulting

b. Term-paper counselling
c. Technical inquiry service
d. Bibliotherapy

B 500. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources up-to-date
b. Sources illustrated
c. Sources useful
d. Sources in standard list

SET 6
B 501. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Thesis
b. Technical Reports
c. Trade literature
d. Dissertations

D 502. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. Circulation Interchange
b. MARC
c. ISO LL
d. Z39.50

C 503. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Fact
b. Alphabetical
c. Classified
d. Concordance

C 504. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources useful
 b. Sources in standard list
c. Sources illustrated
d. Sources up-to-date

A 505. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. LEXIS-NEXIS
b. CIS Congressional Information Service
c. Contents First
d. Find Articles

A 506. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. Scott Foresman
b. Rand McNally
c. C.S. Hammond
d. National Geographic

D 507. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. I. V. Mallari
b. Pacifico M Austria
c. Isidoro Saniel
d. Gabriel Bernardo

C 508. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country Studies
b. Country at a Glance (UN)
c. CIA World Factbook
d. History World

B 509. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Source of contributed articles

b. Qualifications of contributors
c. Length of contributed articles
d. Subject matter of the articles

D 510. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Chronological, according to date of publication

b. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
c. Alphabetical, according to author's name
d. Consecutively, according to accession number

D 511. Which does not belong to the group

a. Bing
b. Yahoo
c. Google
d. Operal
B 512. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Shi-lu
b. Boxer Codex
c. Povedano manuscript
d. La Ilustracion Filipina

A 513. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Protocols
b. Prescription
c. Policy
d. Standards

D 514. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. American Circulating Library

b. New York Public Library
c. Library of Congress
d. Boston Public Library

A 515. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Embedded Librarian
b. Reference Librarian
c. Research librarian
d. Blended librarian

C 516. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Guides to the Literature

b. Dictionaries
c. Encyclopedia
d. Bibliography

B 517. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. Abstracts and annotations

b. All of the above
c. Methodology used in the work
d. Organization

B 518. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Reference Materials

b. Guide to Microforms in Print
c. National Union Catalog
 d. Philippine National Bibliography

A 519. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Ubiquitous learning
b. Online learning
c. Social media learning
d. Consolidated learning

A 520. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Answering ready-reference questions

b. Interlibrary loan
c. Library Orientation
d. Bibliographic verification

A 521. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Book Review Digest

b. Digest of Review
c. Book Review Index
d. Index of Book Reviews

C 522. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. BioMed Central
b. DOAJ
c. Project Gutenberg
d. High Wire

D 523. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Free deposit
b. National book deposit
c. Public Library deposit
d. Legal Deposit

A 524. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Hit
b. Miss
c. Exact
d. Match

A 525. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?
 a. Filipino Writers in English
b. Philippine's Who's Who
c. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
d. Filipinos in History

C 526. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Parenthesis
b. Comma
c. Full stop
d. Hyphen

D 527. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Who's Who
b. Encyclopedia of World Art
c. Artists' Biography
d. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

D 528. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Subject catalogs
b. Union catalogs
c. None of these
d. Trade catalogs

B 529. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Query negotiation
b. Reference process
c. Reference interview
d. Search process

C 530. Guidebook is a

a. Fact source
b. Biographical source
c. Geographical source
d. Unconventional Source

B 531. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Samuel Pepys
b. Andrew Maunsell
c. Sir Thomas Bodley
d. Anthony Panizzi

C 532. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record
 a. Americans
b. Romans
c. Greeks
d. French

D 533. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts

b. Ibon Facts & Figures
c. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
d. Philippine Government Directory

C 534. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

b. William Katz
c. Samuel Rothstein
d. Gerald Jahoda

A 535. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Index
b. Abstract
c. Catalog
d. Shelf-list

D 536. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. Bohdan A. Wynar
b. Marcia Bates
c. Helen Haines
d. A. W. Pollard

D 537. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Cloud -based applications

b. Mobile computing
c. Analytics
d. Learning commons

B 538. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. MESH
b. MEDLINE
c. MEDLARS
d. Healthfinder

B 539. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format
 a. Magazines for Libraries
b. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. The Serial Directory

B 540. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. Legal Trac
b. WESTLAW
c. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
d. LA WINDEX

A 541. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Publication Manual of the APA

b. Turabian. A Manual for Writers
c. Chicago Manual of Style
d. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers

B 542. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Bibliographic control
b. Library and Information Science
c. Indexing and Abstracting
d. Cataloging and classification

B 543. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Epilogue
b. Introduction
c. Table of Contents
d. Preface

A 544. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Community information center

b. Networking
c. Social service center
d. Interlibrary loan service

C 545. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Bibliography
b. Index
c. Library catalog
d. Abstract
B 546. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in
chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Gustav Mahler
b. Johann Tritheim
c. Andrew Maunsell
d. Konrad Gesner

D 547. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Ready-reference question
b. I & R service
c. Bibliographic verification
d. Research question

D 548. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Alexander Cruden
b. Calimachus
c. Johannes Gutenberg
d. William Caxton

D 549. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Dissertation Abstracts International

b. Doctoral Abstracts International
c. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International
d. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts

A 550. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Ruby
b. Powerpoint
c. Learning Analytics
d. Screencasting

D 551. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. Digital History
b. INFOMINE
c. History World
d. Ancient History Sourcebook

C 552. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Legends/ symbols
b. None of the above
c. Latitude and longitude
d. Color
A 553. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

b. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
c. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

C 554. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Exactness
b. Efficiency
c. Precision
d. Recall

D 555. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. Medline
b. Directory of Open Access Journals
c. JURN
d. Scirus

C 556. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Bibliographic verification
b. Ready-reference question
c. Research question
d. I & R service

D 557. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. EasyBib
b. Wolfram Alpha
c. Mindnode
d. Wunderlist

A 558. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

b. American Memory
c. Intute
d. Open J-Gate

C 559. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Paul Stanton Leitz

b. Bruce Cruikshank
 c. Isagani Medina
d. Helen Tubangui

B 560. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. Reference statistics
b. Proxy users
c. Video taping
d. User surveys

C 561. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Melvil Dewey
b. Herbert Putnam
c. Samuel S. Green
d. Benjamin Franklin

A 562. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. E-mail
b. Chatting
c. Video conferencing
d. Instant messaging

C 563. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Research assistance and consulting

b. Bibliographic control
c. Interlibrary loan
d. Information brokering

A 564. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

Select one:
a. Instruction in the use of the library
b. Bibliography
c. ILL
d. Indexes and files compilation

D 565. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. Filipiniana Book Guild Series

b. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
c. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
d. The Filipino Librarian

B 566. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Bibliographic database
 b. Full-text database
c. Document-base searching
d. Indexed search

D 567. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Alphabetical
b. Facts
c. Classified
d. Concordance

D 568. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Johann Georg T. Graesse

b. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
c. Pierre Desschamps
d. Jacques Charles Brunnet

D 569. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. On Cassette
b. Words on Tape
c. Educational Film and Video Locator
d. OPUS

A 570. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. Supreme Court e-Library

b. WestLaw
c. PhilJuris
d. Philippine eLib

A 571. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To provide holdings information

b. To select materials
c. To identify and verify materials
d. To locate material

C 572. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Community
b. Marketing
c. Ratings
d. Education

A 573. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Almanac
b. Yearbook
 c. Directory
d. Encyclopedia

A 574. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. Almanac for Manilelios

b. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
c. The Asian American Almanac
d. Filway's Philippine Almanac

C 575. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. ALA
b. WLIN
c. OCLC
d. RUN

A 576. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Bibliotherapy
b. Term-paper counselling
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Technical inquiry service

D 577. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Format
b. Purpose
c. Special features
d. Scope

D 578. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Demonstration
b. Lecture
c. Active learning
d. Collaborative learning

C 579. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Almanacs and yearbooks

b. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
c. Handbooks and Manuals
d. Maps and Atlases

C 580. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.
 a. Blogger
b. Tumblr
c. Twitter
d. Wordpress

D 581. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Who's Who in the World

b. International Who's Who
c. Biography Index
d. Biography and Genealogy Master Index

D 582. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Filomena Mercado-Tann
b. Marina G. Dayrit
c. Narcisa Tioco
d. Concordia Sanchez

D 583. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Reference librarian
b. Research Librarian
c. Help-desk librarian
d. Roving librarian

C 584. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. CAS
b. SDM
c. SDI
d. CAB

D 585. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. Current Biography
b. New York Time Biographical Services
c. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
d. International Who's Who

D 586. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. Academic Search Complete

b. Intute
c. LexisNexis
d. Scopus
A 587. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Given
b. Subject
c. Access Point
d. Wanted

C 588. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)

b. Academic Search
c. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
d. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

B 589. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Pictorial History of the Philippines

b. Symbols of the State
c. Almanac for Manilenos
d. Guide to Protocol

B 590. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Annual
b. Almanac
c. Compendium
d. Yearbook

A 591. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Recency
b. Availability
c. Brevity
d. Conciseness

A 592. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. Newseum
b. ProPublica
c. World Press Review
d. NewsNow

B 593. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Youtube
b. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
c. Stately Knowledge
d. INFOMINE
B 594. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Specifications
b. Trademarks
c. Standards
d. Patents

C 595. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. Philippine Health Care Factbook

b. Philippine Science Encyclopedia
c. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
d. CEAP Directory

D 596. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. CAS
b. ILL services
c. Information brokering
d. Library instruction

A 597. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Guinness Book of Records

b. Kane's Famous First Facts
c. American Book of Days and Firsts
d. Curiosity Handbook

B 598. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Guides to the literature

b. Handbooks and Almanacs
c. Guidebooks
d. Yearbooks and Almanacs

D 599. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. Library instruction
b. ILL services
c. CAS
d. Information brokering

A 600. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. Magazines for Libraries

 b. The Standard Periodical Directory
c. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
d. The Serials Directory

SET 7
A 601. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

b. Artists' Biography
c. Encyclopedia of World Art
d. Who's Who

D 602. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Abstract
b. Bibliography
c. Index
d. Library catalog

A 603. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. Boston Public Library

b. American Circulating Library
c. New York Public Library
d. Library of Congress

C 604. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Yearbooks and Almanacs

b. Guidebooks
c. Handbooks and Almanacs
d. Guides to the literature

C 605. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. Video taping
b. Reference statistics
c. Proxy users
d. User surveys

A 606. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Full-text database
b. Bibliographic database
c. Indexed search
d. Document-base searching
D 607. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Reference librarian
b. Research Librarian
c. Help-desk librarian
d. Roving librarian

B 608. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Access Point
b. Given
c. Wanted
d. Subject

C 609. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. Filway's Philippine Almanac

b. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
c. Almanac for Manilelios
d. The Asian American Almanac

B 610. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Annual
b. Almanac
c. Compendium
d. Yearbook

A 611. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Embedded Librarian
b. Reference Librarian
c. Blended librarian
d. Research librarian

D 612. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. Contents First
b. CIS Congressional Information Service
c. Find Articles
d. LEXIS-NEXIS

A 613. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Qualifications of contributors
b. Length of contributed articles
c. Subject matter of the articles
d. Source of contributed articles
D 614. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country at a Glance (UN)

b. History World
c. Country Studies
d. CIA World Factbook

C 615. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. Philippine eLib
b. PhilJuris
c. Supreme Court e-Library
d. WestLaw

C 616. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To select materials
b. To locate material
c. To provide holdings information
d. To identify and verify materials

B 617. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Screencasting
b. Ruby
c. Learning Analytics
d. Powerpoint

D 618. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Alphabetical
b. Fact
c. Concordance
d. Classified

D 619. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Cloud -based applications

b. Analytics
c. Mobile computing
d. Learning commons

B 620. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Miss
b. Hit
c. Exact
d. Match
A 621. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and
museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Isagani Medina
b. Helen Tubangui
c. Bruce Cruikshank
d. Paul Stanton Leitz

A 622. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. Gabriel Bernardo
b. I. V. Mallari
c. Pacifico M Austria
d. Isidoro Saniel

C 623. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

b. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
c. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

A 624. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Precision
b. Efficiency
c. Exactness
d. Recall

D 625. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. ILL services
b. CAS
c. Library instruction
d. Information brokering

D 626. Guidebook is a

a. Fact source
b. Biographical source
c. Unconventional Source
d. Geographical source

D 627. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. ProPublica
b. World Press Review
c. NewsNow
d. Newseum
C 628. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. National book deposit

b. Public Library deposit
c. Legal Deposit
d. Free deposit

C 629. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Alexander Cruden
b. Johannes Gutenberg
c. William Caxton
d. Calimachus

C 630. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Marina G. Dayrit
b. Filomena Mercado-Tann
c. Concordia Sanchez
d. Narcisa Tioco

B 631. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Thesis
b. Technical Reports
c. Trade literature
d. Dissertations

D 632. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Reference interview
b. Query negotiation
c. Search process
d. Reference process

B 633. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Information brokering
b. Interlibrary loan
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Bibliographic control

D 634. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. CAS
b. Information brokering
c. ILL services
 d. Library instruction

D 635. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Wordpress
b. Tumblr
c. Blogger
d. Twitter

A 636. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Collaborative learning
b. Lecture
c. Demonstration
d. Active learning

B 637. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. JURN
b. Scirus
c. Medline
d. Directory of Open Access Journals

B 638. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in

chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Konrad Gesner
b. Johann Tritheim
c. Gustav Mahler
d. Andrew Maunsell

A 639. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

b. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
c. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
d. Academic Search

B 640. Which does not belong to the group

a. Google
b. Operal
c. Bing
d. Yahoo

D 641. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography

b. Current Biography
 c. New York Time Biographical Services
d. International Who's Who

A 642. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Library and Information Science

b. Cataloging and classification
c. Indexing and Abstracting
d. Bibliographic control

D 643. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Encyclopedia
b. Yearbook
c. Directory
d. Almanac

A 644. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Trademarks
b. Patents
c. Standards
d. Specifications

B 645. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books

b. WESTLAW
c. Legal Trac
d. LA WINDEX

A 646. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Latitude and longitude

b. None of the above
c. Legends/ symbols
d. Color

A 647. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Microforms in Print

b. Philippine National Bibliography
c. National Union Catalog
d. Guide to Reference Materials

D 648. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. Digital History
b. INFOMINE
 c. History World
d. Ancient History Sourcebook

A 649. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Filipino Writers in English

b. Philippine's Who's Who
c. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
d. Filipinos in History

A 650. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. The Filipino Librarian

b. Filipiniana Book Guild Series
c. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
d. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait

C 651. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Chicago Manual of Style

b. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers
c. Publication Manual of the APA
d. Turabian. A Manual for Writers

A 652. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Recency
b. Conciseness
c. Availability
d. Brevity

D 653. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Interlibrary loan service

b. Social service center
c. Networking
d. Community information center

B 654. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Interlibrary loan
b. Answering ready-reference questions
c. Bibliographic verification
d. Library Orientation

D 655. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Dictionaries
 b. Bibliography
c. Guides to the Literature
d. Encyclopedia

D 656. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. EasyBib
b. Mindnode
c. Wolfram Alpha
d. Wunderlist

C 657. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Intute
b. American Memory
c. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
d. Open J-Gate

C 658. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Special features
b. Purpose
c. Scope
d. Format

B 659. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. SDM
b. SDI
c. CAS
d. CAB

A 660. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Bibliotherapy
b. Term-paper counselling
c. Technical inquiry service
d. Research assistance and consulting

D 661. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Index of Book Reviews

b. Book Review Index
c. Digest of Review
d. Book Review Digest

D 662. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

 a. ILL
b. Bibliography
c. Indexes and files compilation
d. Instruction in the use of the library

A 663. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

Select one:
a. Scott Foresman
b. C.S. Hammond
c. National Geographic
d. Rand McNally

A 664. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Philippine Government Directory

b. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
c. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts
d. Ibon Facts & Figures

C 665. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. The Serials Directory

b. The Standard Periodical Directory
c. Magazines for Libraries
d. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory

C 666. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Catalog
b. Shelf-list
c. Index
d. Abstract

C 667. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. International Who's Who

b. Biography Index
c. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
d. Who's Who in the World

C 668. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Table of Contents
b. Preface
c. Introduction
d. Epilogue
D 669. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Community
b. Marketing
c. Education
d. Ratings

C 670. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources in standard list

b. Sources up-to-date
c. Sources illustrated
d. Sources useful

B 671. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Hyphen
b. Full stop
c. Comma
d. Parenthesis

B 672. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. ISO LL
b. Z39.50
c. Circulation Interchange
d. MARC

A 673. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Research question
b. Bibliographic verification
c. Ready-reference question
d. I & R service

A 674. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Ubiquitous learning
b. Consolidated learning
c. Social media learning
d. Online learning

A 675. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Research question
b. Bibliographic verification
c. Ready-reference question
d. I & R service
B 676. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject

b. Consecutively, according to accession number
c. Alphabetical, according to author's name
d. Chronological, according to date of publication

D 677. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. Intute
b. LexisNexis
c. Academic Search Complete
d. Scopus

A 678. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook

b. CEAP Directory
c. Philippine Science Encyclopedia
d. Philippine Health Care Factbook

D 679. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Subject catalogs
b. Union catalogs
c. None of these
d. Trade catalogs

B 680. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Dissertation Abstracts International

b. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
c. Doctoral Abstracts International
d. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International

D 681. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Maps and Atlases

b. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
c. Almanacs and yearbooks
d. Handbooks and Manuals

B 682. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Classified
 b. Concordance
c. Alphabetical
d. Facts

A 683. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. OPUS
b. On Cassette
c. Words on Tape
d. Educational Film and Video Locator

D 684. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. BioMed Central
b. High Wire
c. DOAJ
d. Project Gutenberg

C 685. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. French
b. Romans
c. Greeks
d. Americans

B 686. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Shi-lu
b. Boxer Codex
c. Povedano manuscript
d. La Ilustracion Filipina

C 687. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. Healthfinder
b. MEDLARS
c. MEDLINE
d. MESH

C 688. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Kane's Famous First Facts

b. Curiosity Handbook
c. Guinness Book of Records
d. American Book of Days and Firsts

C 689. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.
 a. Pictorial History of the Philippines
b. Almanac for Manilenos
c. Symbols of the State
d. Guide to Protocol

B 690. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Gerald Jahoda
b. Samuel Rothstein
c. William Katz
d. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

C 691. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. Organization
b. Abstracts and annotations
c. All of the above
d. Methodology used in the work

B 692. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Herbert Putnam
b. Samuel S. Green
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Melvil Dewey

B 693. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. Helen Haines
b. A. W. Pollard
c. Bohdan A. Wynar
d. Marcia Bates

A 694. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Jacques Charles Brunnet

b. Pierre Desschamps
c. Johann Georg T. Graesse
d. Friedrich Adolf Ebert

B 695. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. ALA
b. OCLC
c. RUN
d. WLIN
B 696. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker
contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. Magazines for Libraries

b. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. The Serial Directory

B 697. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Stately Knowledge
b. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
c. Youtube
d. INFOMINE

C 698. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Policy
b. Prescription
c. Protocols
d. Standards

A 699. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. E-mail
b. Video conferencing
c. Chatting
d. Instant messaging

A 700. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Andrew Maunsell
b. Samuel Pepys
c. Sir Thomas Bodley
d. Anthony Panizzi

SET 8
D 701. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Marketing
b. Community
c. Education
d. Ratings

B 702. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Kane's Famous First Facts

 b. Guinness Book of Records
c. American Book of Days and Firsts
d. Curiosity Handbook

D 703. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. The Serial Directory

b. Magazines for Libraries
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory

A 704. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Collaborative learning
b. Lecture
c. Demonstration
d. Active learning

A 705. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Embedded Librarian
b. Blended librarian
c. Research librarian
d. Reference Librarian

C 706. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Chicago Manual of Style

b. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers
c. Publication Manual of the APA
d. Turabian. A Manual for Writers

C 707. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. Information brokering
b. CAS
c. Library instruction
d. ILL services

A 708. Which does not belong to the group

a. Operal
b. Yahoo
c. Bing
d. Google
B 709. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Encyclopedia of World Art

b. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
c. Artists' Biography
d. Who's Who

D 710. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. Circulation Interchange
b. ISO LL
c. MARC
d. Z39.50

D 711. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Sir Thomas Bodley

b. Samuel Pepys
c. Anthony Panizzi
d. Andrew Maunsell

B 712. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. C.S. Hammond
b. Scott Foresman
c. Rand McNally
d. National Geographic

A 713. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. A. W. Pollard
b. Bohdan A. Wynar
c. Marcia Bates
d. Helen Haines

A 714. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Isagani Medina
b. Bruce Cruikshank
c. Paul Stanton Leitz
d. Helen Tubangui

A 715. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Full stop
b. Parenthesis
c. Comma
d. Hyphen
C 716. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Filipinos in History
b. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
c. Filipino Writers in English
d. Philippine's Who's Who

B 717. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. ILL services
b. Information brokering
c. Library instruction
d. CAS

B 718. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Bibliographic verification
b. Research question
c. Ready-reference question
d. I & R service

B 719. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Purpose
b. Scope
c. Special features
d. Format

B 720. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Filomena Mercado-Tann
b. Concordia Sanchez
c. Narcisa Tioco
d. Marina G. Dayrit

C 721. Guidebook is a

a. Unconventional Source
b. Biographical source
c. Geographical source
d. Fact source

A 722. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Index
b. Abstract
c. Catalog
d. Shelf-list
D 723. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. Philippine Science Encyclopedia

b. Philippine Health Care Factbook
c. CEAP Directory
d. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook

B 724. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Abstract
b. Library catalog
c. Bibliography
d. Index

C 725. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. CIS Congressional Information Service

b. Find Articles
c. LEXIS-NEXIS
d. Contents First

A 726. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Qualifications of contributors
b. Length of contributed articles
c. Source of contributed articles
d. Subject matter of the articles

C 727. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. The Asian American Almanac

b. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
c. Almanac for Manilelios
d. Filway's Philippine Almanac

B 728. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. BioMed Central
b. Project Gutenberg
c. DOAJ
d. High Wire

B 729. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Guidebooks
b. Handbooks and Almanacs
c. Guides to the literature
d. Yearbooks and Almanacs
A 730. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. SDI
b. CAB
c. SDM
d. CAS

A 731. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Technical Reports
b. Dissertations
c. Thesis
d. Trade literature

C 732. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Research Librarian
b. Help-desk librarian
c. Roving librarian
d. Reference librarian

A 733. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. WESTLAW
b. LA WINDEX
c. Legal Trac
d. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books

C 734. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Library Orientation
b. Bibliographic verification
c. Answering ready-reference questions
d. Interlibrary loan

B 735. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

b. Samuel Rothstein
c. William Katz
d. Gerald Jahoda

B 736. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. New York Public Library

b. Boston Public Library
c. American Circulating Library
 d. Library of Congress

B 737. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country Studies
b. CIA World Factbook
c. Country at a Glance (UN)
d. History World

A 738. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Community information center

b. Social service center
c. Interlibrary loan service
d. Networking

A 739. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Library and Information Science

b. Indexing and Abstracting
c. Cataloging and classification
d. Bibliographic control

B 740. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Prescription
b. Protocols
c. Policy
d. Standards

C 741. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. Current Biography
b. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
c. International Who's Who
d. New York Time Biographical Services

D 742. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Herbert Putnam
b. Melvil Dewey
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Samuel S. Green

B 743. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. None of these
 b. Trade catalogs
c. Subject catalogs
d. Union catalogs

D 744. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Reference Materials

b. National Union Catalog
c. Philippine National Bibliography
d. Guide to Microforms in Print

D 745. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

b. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.
d. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

A 746. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Biography and Genealogy Master Index

b. Biography Index
c. International Who's Who
d. Who's Who in the World

C 747. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. JURN
b. Medline
c. Scirus
d. Directory of Open Access Journals

A 748. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in

chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Johann Tritheim
b. Andrew Maunsell
c. Konrad Gesner
d. Gustav Mahler

B 749. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To locate material
b. To provide holdings information
c. To identify and verify materials
d. To select materials

A 750. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)
 a. Jacques Charles Brunnet
b. Johann Georg T. Graesse
c. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
d. Pierre Desschamps

C 751. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Document-base searching
b. Indexed search
c. Full-text database
d. Bibliographic database

A 752. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. Proxy users
b. User surveys
c. Reference statistics
d. Video taping

B 753. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. Chatting
b. E-mail
c. Instant messaging
d. Video conferencing

A 754. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Precision
b. Efficiency
c. Recall
d. Exactness

A 755. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Hit
b. Exact
c. Miss
d. Match

C 756. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Mobile computing
b. Cloud -based applications
c. Learning commons
d. Analytics
B 757. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their
occurrence in a particular text is

a. Facts
b. Concordance
c. Classified
d. Alphabetical

C 758. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Query negotiation
b. Reference interview
c. Reference process
d. Search process

C 759. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Open J-Gate
b. Intute
c. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
d. American Memory

C 760. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. WestLaw
b. PhilJuris
c. Supreme Court e-Library
d. Philippine eLib

D 761. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Povedano manuscript
b. Shi-lu
c. La Ilustracion Filipina
d. Boxer Codex

A 762. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Consecutively, according to accession number

b. Chronological, according to date of publication
c. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject
d. Alphabetical, according to author's name

C 763. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Ibon Facts & Figures

b. Philippine Statistical Yearbook
c. Philippine Government Directory
d. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts
B 764. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. Digital History
b. Ancient History Sourcebook
c. INFOMINE
d. History World

B 765. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Preface
b. Introduction
c. Table of Contents
d. Epilogue

A 766. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts

b. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International
c. Doctoral Abstracts International
d. Dissertation Abstracts International

A 767. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. Newseum
b. World Press Review
c. ProPublica
d. NewsNow

C 768. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Stately Knowledge
b. Youtube
c. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
d. INFOMINE

B 769. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. Organization
b. All of the above
c. Abstracts and annotations
d. Methodology used in the work

C 770. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. ALA
b. RUN
c. OCLC
 d. WLIN

C 771. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

b. Academic Search
c. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
d. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)

C 772. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Specifications
b. Standards
c. Trademarks
d. Patents

A 773. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. Wunderlist
b. Wolfram Alpha
c. Mindnode
d. EasyBib

B 774. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Tumblr
b. Twitter
c. Blogger
d. Wordpress

D 775. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Almanacs and yearbooks

b. Maps and Atlases
c. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
d. Handbooks and Manuals

D 776. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. Americans
b. French
c. Romans
d. Greeks

B 777. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. Words on Tape
b. OPUS
c. On Cassette
 d. Educational Film and Video Locator

C 778. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Availability
b. Conciseness
c. Recency
d. Brevity

D 779. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. Bibliography
b. Indexes and files compilation
c. ILL
d. Instruction in the use of the library

D 780. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Term-paper counselling
b. Technical inquiry service
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Bibliotherapy

B 781. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory

b. Magazines for Libraries
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. The Serials Directory

A 782. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Almanac
b. Yearbook
c. Directory
d. Encyclopedia

A 783. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Interlibrary loan
b. Bibliographic control
c. Research assistance and consulting
d. Information brokering

B 784. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. LexisNexis
 b. Scopus
c. Academic Search Complete
d. Intute

C 785. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. None of the above

b. Color
c. Latitude and longitude
d. Legends/ symbols

A 786. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Book Review Digest

b. Book Review Index
c. Digest of Review
d. Index of Book Reviews

A 787. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Classified
b. Fact
c. Concordance
d. Alphabetical

A 788. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. William Caxton
b. Calimachus
c. Alexander Cruden
d. Johannes Gutenberg

B 789. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Yearbook
b. Almanac
c. Annual
d. Compendium

C 790. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. Isidoro Saniel
b. Pacifico M Austria
c. Gabriel Bernardo
d. I. V. Mallari

C 791. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one
 a. Sources useful
b. Sources in standard list
c. Sources illustrated
d. Sources up-to-date

D 792. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Social media learning

b. Online learning
c. Consolidated learning
d. Ubiquitous learning

B 793. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Guides to the Literature

b. Encyclopedia
c. Dictionaries
d. Bibliography

C 794. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. Filipiniana Book Guild Series

b. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
c. The Filipino Librarian
d. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections

A 795. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Ruby
b. Learning Analytics
c. Powerpoint
d. Screencasting

C 796. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. Healthfinder
b. MESH
c. MEDLINE
d. MEDLARS

C 797. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Bibliographic verification
b. I & R service
c. Research question
d. Ready-reference question
C 798. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Public Library deposit

b. Free deposit
c. Legal Deposit
d. National book deposit

C 799. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Almanac for Manilenos

b. Pictorial History of the Philippines
c. Symbols of the State
d. Guide to Protocol

A 800. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Given
b. Access Point
c. Subject
d. Wanted

SET 9
C 801. Which does not belong to the group

a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. Operal
d. Bing

B 802. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. MARC
b. Z39.50
c. ISO LL
d. Circulation Interchange

D 803. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?

a. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

b. William Katz
c. Gerald Jahoda
d. Samuel Rothstein

C 804. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.
 a. Book Review Index
b. Digest of Review
c. Book Review Digest
d. Index of Book Reviews

D 805. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress

a. Thesis
b. Dissertations
c. Trade literature
d. Technical Reports

D 806. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in

chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Konrad Gesner
b. Gustav Mahler
c. Andrew Maunsell
d. Johann Tritheim

D 807. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. User surveys
b. Reference statistics
c. Video taping
d. Proxy users

C 808. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. CAS
b. CAB
c. SDI
d. SDM

A 809. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Ubiquitous learning
b. Social media learning
c. Online learning
d. Consolidated learning

C 810. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Research assistance and consulting

b. Technical inquiry service
c. Bibliotherapy
d. Term-paper counselling
D 811. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Povedano manuscript
b. La Ilustracion Filipina
c. Shi-lu
d. Boxer Codex

C 812. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Community
b. Marketing
c. Ratings
d. Education

D 813. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Herbert Putnam
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Melvil Dewey
d. Samuel S. Green

C 814. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Guide to Protocol
b. Almanac for Manilenos
c. Symbols of the State
d. Pictorial History of the Philippines

B 815. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one

a. Sources useful
b. Sources illustrated
c. Sources up-to-date
d. Sources in standard list

D 816. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. French
b. Americans
c. Romans
d. Greeks

A 817. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

b. Who's Who
c. Encyclopedia of World Art
 d. Artists' Biography

C 818. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. I. V. Mallari
b. Isidoro Saniel
c. Gabriel Bernardo
d. Pacifico M Austria

C 819. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Guides to the Literature

b. Bibliography
c. Encyclopedia
d. Dictionaries

A 820. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Library and Information Science

b. Indexing and Abstracting
c. Cataloging and classification
d. Bibliographic control

D 821. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. National Geographic
b. C.S. Hammond
c. Rand McNally
d. Scott Foresman

C 822. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?

a. Digital History
b. INFOMINE
c. Ancient History Sourcebook
d. History World

B 823. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.

a. Mobile computing
b. Learning commons
c. Analytics
d. Cloud -based applications

C 824. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. CEAP Directory
b. Philippine Science Encyclopedia
c. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
 d. Philippine Health Care Factbook

B 825. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Chronological, according to date of publication

b. Consecutively, according to accession number
c. Alphabetical, according to author's name
d. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject

C 826. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. Bohdan A. Wynar
b. Marcia Bates
c. A. W. Pollard
d. Helen Haines

C 827. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Bibliographic verification
b. Library Orientation
c. Answering ready-reference questions
d. Interlibrary loan

A 828. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. International Who's Who

b. New York Time Biographical Services
c. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
d. Current Biography

A 829. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Library catalog
b. Bibliography
c. Index
d. Abstract

B 830. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Abstract
b. Index
c. Shelf-list
d. Catalog

B 831. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. Library instruction
b. Information brokering
c. ILL services
d. CAS
D 832. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Information brokering
b. Research assistance and consulting
c. Bibliographic control
d. Interlibrary loan

C 833. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. EasyBib
b. Mindnode
c. Wunderlist
d. Wolfram Alpha

D 834. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Miss
b. Match
c. Exact
d. Hit

A 835. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. Almanac for Manilelios

b. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
c. The Asian American Almanac
d. Filway's Philippine Almanac

D 836. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Tumblr
b. Wordpress
c. Blogger
d. Twitter

D 837. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections

b. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
c. Filipiniana Book Guild Series
d. The Filipino Librarian

C 838. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Yearbooks and Almanacs

b. Guidebooks
c. Handbooks and Almanacs
d. Guides to the literature
A 839. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,
what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Trade catalogs
b. Subject catalogs
c. None of these
d. Union catalogs

D 840. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. The Serial Directory

b. Magazines for Libraries
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory

B 841. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Reference interview
b. Reference process
c. Query negotiation
d. Search process

A 842. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Research question
b. I & R service
c. Ready-reference question
d. Bibliographic verification

C 843. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

b. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
c. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
d. Academic Search

B 844. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Availability
b. Recency
c. Brevity
d. Conciseness

B 845. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Preface
b. Introduction
c. Epilogue
 d. Table of Contents

C 846. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Powerpoint
b. Learning Analytics
c. Ruby
d. Screencasting

D 847. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Pierre Desschamps
b. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
c. Johann Georg T. Graesse
d. Jacques Charles Brunnet

A 848. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. All of the above

b. Abstracts and annotations
c. Methodology used in the work
d. Organization

B 849. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Directory
b. Almanac
c. Yearbook
d. Encyclopedia

A 850. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Publication Manual of the APA

b. Chicago Manual of Style
c. Turabian. A Manual for Writers
d. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers

C 851. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. Healthfinder
b. MEDLARS
c. MEDLINE
d. MESH

C 852. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Sir Thomas Bodley

b. Samuel Pepys
c. Andrew Maunsell
 d. Anthony Panizzi

C 853. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Philippine Statistical Yearbook

b. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts
c. Philippine Government Directory
d. Ibon Facts & Figures

D 854. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Doctoral Abstracts International

b. Dissertation Abstracts International
c. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International
d. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts

D 855. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. Instant messaging
b. Chatting
c. Video conferencing
d. E-mail

B 856. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Helen Tubangui
b. Isagani Medina
c. Bruce Cruikshank
d. Paul Stanton Leitz

A 857. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Guinness Book of Records

b. Kane's Famous First Facts
c. American Book of Days and Firsts
d. Curiosity Handbook

C 858. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Active learning
b. Lecture
c. Collaborative learning
d. Demonstration

A 859. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. Boston Public Library

 b. Library of Congress
c. American Circulating Library
d. New York Public Library

B 860. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Source of contributed articles

b. Qualifications of contributors
c. Subject matter of the articles
d. Length of contributed articles

C 861. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

a. PhilJuris
b. Philippine eLib
c. Supreme Court e-Library
d. WestLaw

A 862. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. Guide to Microforms in Print

b. Guide to Reference Materials
c. National Union Catalog
d. Philippine National Bibliography

B 863. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Public Library deposit

b. Legal Deposit
c. Free deposit
d. National book deposit

D 864. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Recall
b. Exactness
c. Efficiency
d. Precision

C 865. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Social service center

b. Networking
c. Community information center
d. Interlibrary loan service

C 866. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Format
b. Purpose
 c. Scope
d. Special features

D 867. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Bibliographic database
b. Indexed search
c. Document-base searching
d. Full-text database

A 868. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. LEXIS-NEXIS
b. Contents First
c. Find Articles
d. CIS Congressional Information Service

C 869. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. Legends/ symbols
b. None of the above
c. Latitude and longitude
d. Color

B 870. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. Indexes and files compilation

b. Instruction in the use of the library
c. ILL
d. Bibliography

D 871. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Specifications
b. Standards
c. Patents
d. Trademarks

B 872. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Ready-reference question
b. Research question
c. Bibliographic verification
d. I & R service

B 873. Guidebook is a

a. Unconventional Source
b. Geographical source
c. Fact source
d. Biographical source
B 874. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Policy
b. Protocols
c. Prescription
d. Standards

D 875. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. Directory of Open Access Journals

b. JURN
c. Medline
d. Scirus

D 876. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. NewsNow
b. World Press Review
c. ProPublica
d. Newseum

C 877. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Blended librarian
b. Reference Librarian
c. Embedded Librarian
d. Research librarian

D 878. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Subject
b. Wanted
c. Access Point
d. Given

B 879. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

a. Marina G. Dayrit
b. Concordia Sanchez
c. Narcisa Tioco
d. Filomena Mercado-Tann

B 880. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Dictionary of Philippine Biography

b. Filipino Writers in English
 c. Filipinos in History
d. Philippine's Who's Who

D 881. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. LA WINDEX
b. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
c. Legal Trac
d. WESTLAW

A 882. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Full stop
b. Hyphen
c. Parenthesis
d. Comma

D 883. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Almanacs and yearbooks

b. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
c. Maps and Atlases
d. Handbooks and Manuals

B 884. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. Academic Search Complete

b. Scopus
c. LexisNexis
d. Intute

D 885. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. The Serials Directory

b. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
c. The Standard Periodical Directory
d. Magazines for Libraries

D 886. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Compendium
b. Yearbook
c. Annual
d. Almanac

B 887. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.
 a. DOAJ
b. Project Gutenberg
c. High Wire
d. BioMed Central

C 888. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. WLIN
b. RUN
c. OCLC
d. ALA

A 889. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. OPUS
b. Educational Film and Video Locator
c. Words on Tape
d. On Cassette

A 890. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To provide holdings information

b. To locate material
c. To select materials
d. To identify and verify materials

D 891. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Biography Index
b. Who's Who in the World
c. International Who's Who
d. Biography and Genealogy Master Index

C 892. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

b. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a
bibliography.

D 893. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Intute
b. Open J-Gate
c. American Memory
d. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
D 894. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Alphabetical
b. Concordance
c. Fact
d. Classified

D 895. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Johannes Gutenberg
b. Alexander Cruden
c. Calimachus
d. William Caxton

C 896. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. CAS
b. ILL services
c. Library instruction
d. Information brokering

A 897. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive

b. INFOMINE
c. Stately Knowledge
d. Youtube

B 898. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country Studies
b. CIA World Factbook
c. Country at a Glance (UN)
d. History World

B 899. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Research Librarian
b. Roving librarian
c. Reference librarian
d. Help-desk librarian

A 900. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Concordance
b. Facts
 c. Classified
d. Alphabetical

SET 10
A 901. Which of the following does not contain biographical information in essay form?

a. International Who's Who

b. Encyclopedia of World Bibliography
c. Current Biography
d. New York Time Biographical Services

A 902. Information and referral, or simply I & R which is closely related with reference
service at the public library level is also described as

a. Community information center

b. Social service center
c. Networking
d. Interlibrary loan service

D 903. A library user would like to browse online through public domain films,
newsreels, ads, documentaries, television series and other "cultural artifacts".
Where would you direct him?

a. Youtube
b. INFOMINE
c. Stately Knowledge
d. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive

D 904. An online resource that allows users to browse today's front page treatment of
news from nearly 100 countries.

a. ProPublica
b. World Press Review
c. NewsNow
d. Newseum

A 905. A bibliography can be evaluated by examining the

a. All of the above

b. Abstracts and annotations
c. Methodology used in the work
d. Organization

C 906. One of the most accurate methods used in locating places through a map is
with the use of

a. None of the above

b. Color
c. Latitude and longitude
d. Legends/ symbols

A 907. Aside from James Ingersoll Wyer, what is the name of a library scholar who also
theorized a three level approach to reference service?
 a. Samuel Rothstein
b. Gerald Jahoda
c. William Katz
d. Shiyali Ramanritam Ranganathan

C 908. An indirect biographical source, this offers comprehensive current and

retrospective coverage of citations to more than 2 million entries in several
hundred biographical sources.

a. Biography Index
b. Who's Who in the World
c. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
d. International Who's Who

D 909. During the 1s t conference of the ALA in 1876, who delivered a paper entitled
"Personal relations between librarians and readers" which was the earliest
proposal for the establishment of a formalized reference service in libraries?

a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Melvil Dewey
c. Herbert Putnam
d. Samuel S. Green

C 910. One of the pioneers of Analytical bibliography

a. Marcia Bates
b. Helen Haines
c. A. W. Pollard
d. Bohdan A. Wynar

B 911. Which of the following reference tools is a compendium of useful data and
statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, subjects, etc.?

a. Yearbook
b. Almanac
c. Annual
d. Compendium

A 912. A term that means "anywhere, anytime learning" which is supported by having
24/7 online reference service through multiple venues.

a. Ubiquitous learning
b. Consolidated learning
c. Online learning
d. Social media learning

C 913. The following are all examples of general indexes and abstracts except

a. Academic Search
b. Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
c. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
d. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

B 914. The following are new trends in technology that are expected to make an impact
in library services, except for one.
 a. Cloud -based applications
b. Learning commons
c. Analytics
d. Mobile computing

D 915. Which of the following is a form bibliography?

a. National Union Catalog

b. Philippine National Bibliography
c. Guide to Reference Materials
d. Guide to Microforms in Print

D 916. What is the name of the first library to offer a full time reference position in
1883?

a. New York Public Library

b. Library of Congress
c. American Circulating Library
d. Boston Public Library

C 917. An item produced by Schwann publication which is considered as the ‘books in

print of recorded sound.

a. Educational Film and Video Locator

b. Words on Tape
c. OPUS
d. On Cassette

B 918. One of the primary methods of acquisition for National Libraries is the collection
of items by a system of compulsory free deposit by the various publishers in the
country. What do you call this procedure?

a. Public Library deposit

b. Legal Deposit
c. National book deposit
d. Free deposit

B 919. Any word, name, symbol, or device adopted and used by a manufacturer to
identify his goods

a. Specifications
b. Trademarks
c. Standards
d. Patents

A 920. What is this part of a user's negotiated query which provides a starting point for
the librarian in providing an answer?

a. Given
b. Subject
c. Wanted
d. Access Point
A 921. A German bibliographer and librarian who compiled a bibliography in
chronological order with an alphabetical author index?

a. Johann Tritheim
b. Gustav Mahler
c. Konrad Gesner
d. Andrew Maunsell

A 922. One of the tests for authority as one of the major points for evaluating
encyclopedia is

a. Qualifications of contributors
b. Source of contributed articles
c. Length of contributed articles
d. Subject matter of the articles

D 923. Where would you find the life and works of late nineteenth century French
composer Claude Debussy?

a. Who's Who
b. Artists' Biography
c. Encyclopedia of World Art
d. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

B 924. Which of these almanacs will tell you on what day you were born?

a. The Asian American Almanac

b. Almanac for Manilelios
c. RR's Philippine Almanac: Book of Facts
d. Filway's Philippine Almanac

B 925. Service wherein information is gathered, evaluated, and packaged for clients for
a fee.

a. CAS
b. Information brokering
c. Library instruction
d. ILL services

A 926. ______ are formal agreements on the form and style of communication to assure
reliable information transfers.

a. Protocols
b. Policy
c. Standards
d. Prescription

D 927. One student needs science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM)
sources for research. Which of these digital online resources will you
recommend?

a. Directory of Open Access Journals

b. Medline
c. JURN
d. Scirus
B 928. What do you call a computer database where searching is no longer confined to
titles and abstracts only but you can access the whole document itself?

a. Indexed search
b. Full-text database
c. Bibliographic database
d. Document-base searching

B 929. One of the best characteristics of Serials as important reference materials

a. Brevity
b. Recency
c. Conciseness
d. Availability

A 930. What is the process whereby an interaction between the librarian, the user, and
the library materials is needed in order for the needs of the user to be satisfied?

a. Reference process
b. Reference interview
c. Query negotiation
d. Search process

D 931. In SDI, what do you call the positive matching of a user's and document's
description?

a. Miss
b. Match
c. Exact
d. Hit

B 932. When you want to know the coverage of a reference source you examine the

a. Special features
b. Scope
c. Format
d. Purpose

B 933. It is considered the largest bibliographic network because it includes more than
55,000 libraries in the US and other countries.

a. RUN
b. OCLC
c. ALA
d. WLIN

C 934. This is a law index with a major general indexing component

a. CIS Congressional Information Service

b. Contents First
c. LEXIS-NEXIS
d. Find Articles

D 935. Who wrote the book, 'Philippine School Libraries'?

 a. Narcisa Tioco
b. Filomena Mercado-Tann
c. Marina G. Dayrit
d. Concordia Sanchez

A 936. An online indexing service which is similar to LEXIS NEXIS, in that it offers the
full -text of various federal statutes, decisions of the federal court, and the like

a. WESTLAW
b. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
c. LA WINDEX
d. Legal Trac

A 937. Necessary when the number of users seeking information exceeds the staff's
capacity for individualized reference service, this activity teaches users how to
find information and to some extent, how it is organized for use

a. Library instruction
b. CAS
c. Information brokering
d. ILL services

D 938. The following are mobile apps specifically useful for researchers and academics
except for one.

a. Mindnode
b. Wolfram Alpha
c. EasyBib
d. Wunderlist

D 939. If current national bibliographies are usually compiled by national libraries,

what do you call the current bibliographies published by commercial
publishers?

a. Subject catalogs
b. Union catalogs
c. None of these
d. Trade catalogs

D 940. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. I & R service
b. Ready-reference question
c. Bibliographic verification
d. Research question

B 941. The following are technology skills needed by blended librarians except one.

a. Screencasting
b. Ruby
c. Powerpoint
d. Learning Analytics
A 942. These ready-reference sources are limited in scope to a given field of knowledge
or specialization

a. Handbooks and Manuals

b. Maps and Atlases
c. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
d. Almanacs and yearbooks

A 943. Which of these electronic resources does not belong to the group?

a. The Filipino Librarian

b. Politico: Everyman's Guide to Philippine Elections
c. Lobo Jose: An Intimate Portrait
d. Filipiniana Book Guild Series

D 944. This control -access -directional type of material aids its user in finding out
whether its library or another library has a copy of a particular book.

a. Abstract
b. Bibliography
c. Index
d. Library catalog

B 945. Which of the following does NOT belong to the group?

a. Philippine Statistical Yearbook

b. Philippine Government Directory
c. Ibon Facts & Figures
d. Philippine Almanac & Book of Facts

C 946. International in scope this bibliography of serials published by R.R. Bowker

contains not only basic bibliographic information about serials but also
availability in indexes and in online or CD-ROM format

a. The Standard Periodical Directory

b. Magazines for Libraries
c. Ulrich 's Periodicals Directory
d. The Serial Directory

D 947. A student wants to know more about the life and works of NVM Gonzales, a
fictionist, poet, editor, and teacher. Which of these references should he
consult?

a. Filipinos in History
b. Dictionary of Philippine Biography
c. Philippine's Who's Who
d. Filipino Writers in English

C 948. This tool provides an annotated list of magazines for the general reader, and for
the school, junior college, college, university, and public libraries. It is edited by
Bill and Linda Katz.

a. The Serials Directory

b. Ulrich's International Periodical Directory
c. Magazines for Libraries
 d. The Standard Periodical Directory

B 949. This standard serves as a protocol when looking for records across different
databases and networks

a. ISO LL
b. Z39.50
c. MARC
d. Circulation Interchange

C 950. A service practiced in groups wherein literature in any format is used to assist
the personal growth and rehabilitation of group members through discussion of
the material

a. Term-paper counselling
b. Technical inquiry service
c. Bibliotherapy
d. Research assistance and consulting

B 951. Which of the following is not a notable publisher of atlases?

a. C.S. Hammond
b. Scott Foresman
c. Rand McNally
d. National Geographic

D 952. The following are free full -text online journal databases except for one.

a. BioMed Central
b. High Wire
c. DOAJ
d. Project Gutenberg

D 953. Guidebook is a

a. Fact source
b. Unconventional Source
c. Biographical source
d. Geographical source

C 954. What do you call the library service where one library borrows material from
another library?

a. Bibliographic control
b. Information brokering
c. Interlibrary loan
d. Research assistance and consulting

B 955. A student needs in-depth information about a country. Which resource would
you recommend?

a. Country Studies
b. CIA World Factbook
c. Country at a Glance (UN)
d. History World
A 956. This is an octavo -sized publication circa 1590 which contains descriptions of
the lands and inhabitants of the Moluccas, Java, Siam, China, Japan, and
Philippines including 75 colored illustrations of the natives of the region.

a. Boxer Codex
b. La Ilustracion Filipina
c. Shi-lu
d. Povedano manuscript

A 957. A microblog site usually utilized by libraries to announce library news and
updates, link to resources found online, and re -announce similar materials
recommended by other libraries and institutions.

a. Twitter
b. Blogger
c. Tumblr
d. Wordpress

D 958. Which if the following is an obtrusive evaluation technique used to evaluate

reference transactions?

a. Video taping
b. User surveys
c. Reference statistics
d. Proxy users

D 959. The part of the book which explains the general subject matter and plan of the
book

a. Preface
b. Table of Contents
c. Epilogue
d. Introduction

D 960. They were the first to use the author as an entry in their bibliographic record

a. French
b. Romans
c. Americans
d. Greeks

B 961. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy was the first book printed in the English
language. Who was its printer?

a. Alexander Cruden
b. William Caxton
c. Calimachus
d. Johannes Gutenberg

A 962. A more complex and frequently less concretely defined reference question which
requires checking of different types of reference and information services

a. Research question
b. I & R service
 c. Ready-reference question
d. Bibliographic verification

A 963. It is the principle in searching which places emphasis on the number of hits
which are relevant

a. Precision
b. Recall
c. Efficiency
d. Exactness

A 964. A.W. Pollard lists three main methods of the arrangements of bibliographies.
Which of the following is NOT included?

a. Consecutively, according to accession number

b. Chronological, according to date of publication
c. Alphabetical, according to author's name
d. Logical, according to what is considered the natural sequences of a subject

A 965. The following are primary uses of a bibliography. Which does not belong to the
group?

a. To provide holdings information

b. To locate material
c. To select materials
d. To identify and verify materials

B 966. A reference tool which includes articles on subjects in every field of knowledge
which usually is written in a narrative style and are usually detailed and
lengthy?

a. Dictionaries
b. Encyclopedia
c. Guides to the Literature
d. Bibliography

A 967. Which of the following is a compact reference tool that provides essential
information on a specific subject area in a concise and comprehensive form?

a. Handbooks and Almanacs

b. Guidebooks
c. Guides to the literature
d. Yearbooks and Almanacs

A 968. He published the greatest bibliography in France entitled “Manuel du Libraire et

de l’ amateur de Livres” (3 vol.)

a. Jacques Charles Brunnet

b. Friedrich Adolf Ebert
c. Johann Georg T. Graesse
d. Pierre Desschamps

A 969. The following are all factors in achieving a high quality reference collection
except for one
 a. Sources illustrated
b. Sources up-to-date
c. Sources in standard list
d. Sources useful

C 970. To know the leading sickness in the Philippines for a specific period, one has to
consult this book.

a. Philippine Health Care Factbook

b. Philippine Science Encyclopedia
c. Fookien Times Philippine Yearbook
d. CEAP Directory

A 971. He was referred to as the doyen of Filipino librarians.

a. Gabriel Bernardo
b. I. V. Mallari
c. Isidoro Saniel
d. Pacifico M Austria

D 972. A term that refers to a library or an information professional working within a

team outside of the physical space of a library.

a. Reference Librarian
b. Blended librarian
c. Research librarian
d. Embedded Librarian

C 973. A student wants to find out which is the most expensive animated film. Which of
the following will you consult?

a. Curiosity Handbook
b. American Book of Days and Firsts
c. Guinness Book of Records
d. Kane's Famous First Facts

B 974. The science of organizing information to make them available to those seeking to
use it

a. Cataloging and classification

b. Library and Information Science
c. Indexing and Abstracting
d. Bibliographic control

A 975. A librarian that goes around the campus carrying a tablet, ready to answer
questions from students and faculty alike.

a. Roving librarian
b. Reference librarian
c. Help-desk librarian
d. Research Librarian

C 976. A student would like to be referred to a site he can use to research on ancient
history. Which of the following would you recommend?
 a. Digital History
b. INFOMINE
c. Ancient History Sourcebook
d. History World

C 977. Which of the following is a platform for conducting asynchronous reference

interview?

a. Chatting
b. Instant messaging
c. E-mail
d. Video conferencing

D 978. It began as the 'Index Medicus' in print in 1960. It is considered as the World's
most comprehensive index in Medicine' and produced by the National Library of
Medicine.

a. Healthfinder
b. MEDLARS
c. MESH
d. MEDLINE

C 979. Which of the following statements about bibliography is TRUE?

a. Retrospectiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a

bibliography.
b. Selectivity rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
c. Inclusiveness rather than selectivity is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.
d. Currency rather than inclusiveness is the appropriate aim for a bibliography.

D 980. Which of the following manuals of bibliographic citations is used by researchers

in the social sciences?

a. Turabian. A Manual for Writers

b. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers
c. Chicago Manual of Style
d. Publication Manual of the APA

A 981. What punctuation mark is used at the end of each main part of a bibliographic
entry?

a. Full stop
b. Parenthesis
c. Hyphen
d. Comma

B 982. Which does not belong to the group

a. Bing
b. Operal
c. Google
d. Yahoo

C 983. Usually produced in-house and usually ephemeral, these primary sources
contain information about research in progress
 a. Trade literature
b. Dissertations
c. Technical Reports
d. Thesis

D 984. The index arranged in an alphabetical manner with reference to their

occurrence in a particular text is

a. Facts
b. Alphabetical
c. Classified
d. Concordance

C 985. An umbrella term for a broad array of teaching methods that are learner-
centered and based on the premises that learning is an active, constructive
process; learning is inherently social.

a. Demonstration
b. Lecture
c. Collaborative learning
d. Active learning

D 986. Which of the following is NOT an indirect function of reference service?

a. ILL
b. Bibliography
c. Indexes and files compilation
d. Instruction in the use of the library

A 987. The index which follows an arrangement of materials according to logical order
is called

a. Classified
b. Alphabetical
c. Concordance
d. Fact

B 988. A tool used to locate information within a document, may it be book, periodical,
compact disc etc.

a. Catalog
b. Index
c. Shelf-list
d. Abstract

D 989. An online resource where one can search for online exhibitions selected by
Smithsonian librarians.

a. Intute
b. American Memory
c. Open J-Gate
d. Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

C 990. The first online library of complete Philippine legal information.

 a. PhilJuris
b. Philippine eLib
c. Supreme Court e-Library
d. WestLaw

B 991. This is a list of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to Xerox University

Microfilms by more than 345 cooperating institutions. Basically it is a guide to
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations.

a. Dissertation Abstracts International

b. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
c. Doctoral Abstracts International
d. Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts International

A 992. This reference material gives the heraldic value of the Philippine coat of arms,
brief history of the Philippines, its cities and provinces including their seal,
flower, and banner.

a. Symbols of the State

b. Pictorial History of the Philippines
c. Almanac for Manilenos
d. Guide to Protocol

A 993. Which reference resource will you consult to answer the question, 'who was the
youngest president of the United States'?

a. Almanac
b. Directory
c. Encyclopedia
d. Yearbook

B 994. What is a service provided by the reference section that reviews newly available
documents and selects items relevant to the needs of an individual or group and
recording them so that notifications may be sent to them.

a. CAS
b. SDI
c. SDM
d. CAB

C 995. This tool, used to locate book reviews, covers books published since 1905. It
gives excerpts of and citations to reviews of current English fiction and non-
fiction both for children and adults.

a. Digest of Review
b. Book Review Index
c. Book Review Digest
d. Index of Book Reviews

C 996. All of the following are types of information service, except one. Which is the
exception?

a. Interlibrary loan
b. Library Orientation
 c. Answering ready-reference questions
d. Bibliographic verification

D 997. The following are reasons why libraries use social media, except for one.

a. Community
b. Marketing
c. Education
d. Ratings

C 998. A faculty member needs to know how many times his published works in a
professional engineering journal has been cited. Which online resource will you
recommend?

a. LexisNexis
b. Intute
c. Scopus
d. Academic Search Complete

B 999. Catalogs or listings of Filipiniana materials found in various libraries and

museums abroad may be found in the works of the following, except one.

a. Paul Stanton Leitz

b. Isagani Medina
c. Bruce Cruikshank
d. Helen Tubangui

A 1000. An English bookseller who initiated the move for entering Christian names
under surnames rather than forenames

a. Andrew Maunsell
b. Sir Thomas Bodley
c. Samuel Pepys
d. Anthony Panizzi